This week’s 4cast:
1. You Don’t Know AJAX?
Does your website feel sluggish and uncooperative? Maybe it needs some AJAX (short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). AJAX is a web development technique that helps websites feel more interactive, responsive, and well… just a whole lot slicker.
- AJAX: Getting Started (Mozilla Developer Center)
- AJAX: An Introduction (BlogJunction)
- Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials (Max Kiesler)
- Ajax Workshops Archive (AjaxLessons.com)
2. Mooching Gets Legit
BookMooch is a new service that allows people to give away their old books in return for other peoples’ old books. And it’s free – a point system prevents you from only taking and not giving. Even more – moochers can donate their points to libraries.
- Give new life to old books with BookMooch (Lifehacker)
- BookMooch: Swap your books for free (CNET News)
- BookMooch (Pattern Recognition)
3. DVD Sales Lagging, Industry Grapples With Copy Restrictions & Fair Use
With DVD sales in decline, some sections of the industry want to ease copy restrictions that prevent consumers from legally making digital copies of movies. At the same time, other sections continue to fight to protect their clunky copy protection measures of old.
- Legal DVD Burning for Digital Films Closer to Reality (TechNewsWorld)
- Digitizing video signals might violate the DMCA (Ars Technica)
- Day two at LinuxWorld: Red Hat is MIA, but Golden Penguins A-OK (NewsForge)
4. Take Two Beta Bloggers & Leave a Comment in the Morning
The blogosphere evolved last week when the two biggies released beta versions of their respective blog publishing software – Windows Live Writer (Microsoft) and Blogger (Google).
- Review: Windows Live Write Beta (Paul Stamatiou)
- Writer is Microsoft’s first Live killer app (ZDNet)
- Update aims for a friendlier Blogger (CNET News)
- Blogger’s New Beta (Monkey Bites)
