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Jeremy Geelan
Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, of the all-new Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, of the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV. |
.NET Editorial —
There Is Nothing
Permanent Except Change By Jeremy Geelan; Patrick Hynds  In a cross-platform world
where software giants
nevertheless continue to
vie with each other for
developer mindshare, it
is significant that only
one major company has
managed to synch up its
release numbers with the
Web 2.0 phenomenon.
Microsoft is not resting
on... Dec. 15, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 16,174 | Is the Rise of Google the
End of the Game for
Everyone Else? By Jeremy Geelan  As I write this, the
stock price of Google,
Inc. just exceeded $500
for the first time in the
company's still-brief
(two-year) history as a
public company. That
gives the search colossus
a market cap of $150
billion, many times in
excess of its physical
assets - c... Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 20,124 | SYS-CON Bloggers Reflect
High Energy-Level of the
i-Technology Space By Jeremy Geelan On any given day, more
blogs about i-Technology
appear at SYS-CON.con's
myriad domains than any
other destination site on
the Web. Topics range
from Java, AJAX,
enterprise open source,
Web services, SOA, Linux,
wireless technologies,
XML, .NET, Eclipse,
PowerBuild... Dec. 8, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 15,088 | Is The Rise of Google The
End of the Game for
Everyone Else? By Jeremy Geelan As I write this, the
stock price of Google,
Inc. just exceeded $500
for the first time in the
company's still-brief
(two-year) history as a
public company. That
gives Google a market cap
of $150 billion, compared
to $19.5 billion for Sun.
What's the explanation? Nov. 21, 2006 08:45 PM Reads: 16,923 Replies: 3 | Yahoo! SVP Sends "Peanut
Butter Manifesto" to
Fellow Executives By Jeremy Geelan Brad Garlinghouse, author
of the 'Peanut Butter
Manifesto' to his fellow
Yahoo! executives - which
made the front page of
the Wall Street Journal
at the weekend - intended
his leaked memo as a call
to action for Yahoo! to
regain its focus. Nov. 21, 2006 06:30 AM Reads: 10,814 Replies: 8 | "AJAX Lacks a
DataWindow," Contends
IBM's Bob Zurek By Jeremy Geelan AJAX frameworks - says
former Ascential VP of
Technology and Product
Management Bob Zurek, now
with IBM (who acquired
Ascential) - currently
lack a killer component
like the DataWindow.
Developers spend way to
much time dealing with
all the complexities that
are e... Nov. 20, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 19,242 Replies: 3 | Microsoft-Novell: "Free
Has To Have A Price"
– "That's
Nonsense," Says Sun CEO
Jonathan Schwartz By Jeremy Geelan  'Those that say open
source software can't be
safe for customers - or
that commercially
indemnified software
can't foster community -
are merely advancing
their own agenda. Without
any basis in fact.' That,
according to Sun's CEO
Jonathan Schwartz, is why
the exec... Nov. 20, 2006 04:30 AM Reads: 16,283 Replies: 3 | "AJAX Is Not a Fad..."
– Developers Speak
Out By Jeremy Geelan  'AJAX is not a fad,'
according to Andy Lyttle.
'People aren't using AJAX
just because it's AJAX.
It's not for
buzzword-compliance,
although it has become a
buzzword. It's not for
adding useless frills,
although it can be used
for useless frills. AJAX
is a tool to ... Nov. 20, 2006 04:00 AM Reads: 20,606 Replies: 3 | 1990–2006: The
World Wide Web Turns
Sweet Sixteen! By Jeremy Geelan  November 13 marked the
16th birthday of the
World Wide Web, according
to the definitive
timeline published by the
W3C itself, which
identifies the first web
page (no longer extant)
as having been located.
The occasion has not
unsurprisingly unleashed
a wave of Web... Nov. 17, 2006 12:15 PM Reads: 13,528 Replies: 5 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
Is This the Advent of the
Post-Modern Internet? By Jeremy Geelan  The question that forms
the title of this
editorial was recently
asked by a young observer
of the Web 2.0 scene,
Skinner Layne, who
contends that the key
thing to determine about
Web 2.0 is whether it is
best characterized as a
revolution in Web
development or as ... Nov. 14, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 18,006 | i-Technology Enters The
Heterogeneous Zone By Jeremy Geelan  When a company as
Java-centric as Wily
Technology launches its
first .NET solution, the
software development
world takes notice. Now
as a part of CA, Wily has
just GA'd its flagship
Introscope tool for .NET,
and one of the reasons it
has done so is that
worldwide ... Nov. 12, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 10,651 | $18 Billion Dollar Adobe
Moves Center Stage By Jeremy Geelan  Once upon a time, Sun and
Apple used to have about
the same market cap.
Today Apple has a market
cap of $63BN while Sun's
is just $17BN. Ahead of
Sun, unbeknownst to many,
is Adobe. Its market cap
today is $18BN. For a
company that in 1998 was
worth 'only' $1.7BN it... Nov. 4, 2006 05:30 PM Reads: 19,549 Replies: 2 | AJAX and the Evolution of
the Web By Jeremy Geelan  At the Real-World AJAX
seminar in New York City
on March 13, SYS-CON
Events had a chance to
speak with Jesse James
Garrett, the director of
user experience strategy
and founding partner of
Adaptive Path as well as
the 'Father of AJAX.' Nov. 2, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 12,531 | i-Technology Enters The
Heterogeneous Zone as
Wily Embraces .NET By Jeremy Geelan When a company as
Java-centric as Wily
Technology launches its
first .NET solution, the
software development
world takes notice.
Platform unification,
where .NET
Framework-based
applications are
re-hosted on Java EE, or
vice versa, is the new
normality. Oct. 29, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 10,892 | MAX 2006 Show Report -
Kevin Lynch's Day One
Keynote By Jeremy Geelan There's always an
inherent danger, for any
company getting behind a
meta-theme like
'revolutionizing how the
world engages with ideas
and information
anytime, anywhere and
through any medium,' that
it has defined a wish
rather than a reality.
The thousands of
... Oct. 25, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 23,622 Replies: 2 | Web 2.0 –
Revolution or Mere
Rebellion? By Jeremy Geelan Might a phenomenon as
young as the Internet
have already moved into
its second era? Is Web
2.0 more of a rebellion,
a corrective to Web 1.0 -
or is it a genuine
revolution? Oct. 21, 2006 08:15 AM Reads: 17,503 Replies: 8 | The Perfect Storm of Web
2.0 Disruption? By Jeremy Geelan  The winds of change in
the Web world have
reached hurricane force
right now, and nowhere
are they blowing more
fiercely than around that
epicenter of weather
activity that's been
labeled 'Web 2.0.' There,
a perfect storm is
brewing. Oct. 20, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 15,195 | What's So Special About
AJAX? By Jeremy Geelan  Now that the web is well
on its way to becoming
more responsive, smoother
and reliable - and
correspondingly more
enjoyable to work with -
AJAXWorld Magazine stops
up and tries to
'freeze-frame' the
moment. We take a look at
the question that is
presently on the m... Oct. 18, 2006 08:30 AM Reads: 37,377 Replies: 10 | Hinchcliffe's Whirlwind
AJAX Round-Up Brings
First-Ever "AJAX
University Bootcamp" To a
Close By Jeremy Geelan  Whether anyone arriving
at 8:30AM this morning to
attend Dion Hinchcliffe's
inaugural 'AJAX
University Bootcamp' at
AJAXWorld 2006 realized
that just nine hours
later they'd be talking
intelligently about using
geocoding in image tags
to build an application
'mash... Oct. 18, 2006 08:30 AM Reads: 20,334 | Sun Wants Java To Be a
Part of "The AJAX Moment" By Jeremy Geelan No company on earth had
more speakers on the
inaugural AJAXWorld
speaker faculty than Sun,
including Greg Murray --
Servlet 2.5 Specification
Lead, now the AJAX
architect for Sun. Greg
personally spent several
weeks preparing for that
OpenAjax Alliance
membership ... Oct. 10, 2006 03:00 AM Reads: 36,687 Replies: 2 | Analysis: Friendster,
Facebook, MySpace, and
Xanga.com Have Different
Audiences By Jeremy Geelan 'There is a misconception
that social networking is
the exclusive domain of
teenagers, but this
analysis confirms that
the appeal of social
networking sites is far
broader,' says a report
this week by the Internet
research firm comScore
Media Metrix. For
example, ... Oct. 9, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 22,128 Replies: 2 | i-Technology Opinion: Bye
Bye "AJAX," The Age of
"Ajax" Is Nigh By Jeremy Geelan In a move that will
almost certainly resolve
once and for all the
continuing uncertainty in
the world's press as to
whether the phenomenon at
the center of last week's
high-energy event at the
Santa Clara Convention
Center should be spelt
'AJAX' or 'Ajax,' SYS-CON
... Oct. 7, 2006 06:45 PM Reads: 13,804 Replies: 3 | Web 2.0 Needs a
"Confusion Solution" By Jeremy Geelan The latest person to
highlight the
precariousness of public
understanding of Web 2.0
is one of the absolute
pioneers of a richer web,
Nexaweb's founder and
CTO, Coach Wei. Wei's
concern centers on the
common misapprehension
that Web 2.0 is solely a
consumer phenom... Oct. 2, 2006 04:15 AM Reads: 22,649 Replies: 3 | The AJAX-ification of
Silicon Valley By Jeremy Geelan Imbibing AJAX
cheek-by-jowl with
Yahoo!, Sun, Intel,
Nortel Networks, McAfee,
and a host of other major
headquarters buildings is
a salutary experience. It
is as if the AJAX
approach, which got
itself a name in San
Francisco but is based on
technologies spawned in... Oct. 1, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 10,959 | The Spread of AJAX Makes
the Spread of Wildfire
Look Slow By Jeremy Geelan The AjaxWorld(TM)
Conference & Expo series
is a world-beating
Conference program aimed
at providing developers
and IT managers alike
with comprehensive
information and insight
into the biggest paradigm
shift in website design,
development, and
deployment since the... Sep. 28, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 22,324 Replies: 11 | You Hold the Future of
the Web in Your Hands By Jeremy Geelan  Once upon a time - in a
world before MashupCamps
and online widget
platforms like live.com,
before Google's
personalized homepage and
pageflakes, and before
JSON, Comet, Dojo, and
Apache Derby - there was
a term 'DHTML' (for
dynamic HTML). It was
used, as Wikiped... Sep. 25, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 13,727 Replies: 1 | Jeremy Geelan's Social
Computing Blog: "Defining
Web 2.0...And Then Acting
On It" By Jeremy Geelan Mark Knopfler once said,
'I don't like
definitions, but if there
is a definition of
freedom, it would be when
you have control over
your reality to transform
it, to change it, rather
than having it imposed
upon you. You can't
really ask for more than
that.' Anyone... Sep. 25, 2006 08:45 AM Reads: 14,580 Replies: 2 | AJAX and Microsoft's
Atlas To Dominate the
Shape of i-Technology By Jeremy Geelan  According to our
worldwide network of
software development
activists, evangelists,
and executives, 2006
promises to be a vintage
year for software
development...with IE7,
Atlas, and AJAX featuring
prominently. Sep. 24, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 36,369 Replies: 5 | Seven Out of the 15
Richest Americans Are
Technology Billionaires By Jeremy Geelan Steve Ballmer, who after
all is a 'mere'
executive, not a founder
like the rest of them,
comes in at number
fifteen in the
newly-released Forbes 400
Richest Americans list.
The list confirms the
hugely dominant role
played by technology in
creating billionaires in... Sep. 23, 2006 04:15 PM Reads: 13,864 Replies: 2 | Transformational AJAX:
The New Future of the Web
Has Begun By Jeremy Geelan Just fifteen years after
Tim (now Sir Tim)
Berners-Lee made public a
little project he called
the World Wide Web,
something new is
happening. And it
involves, if not AJAX,
then some kind of similar
approach: this
four-letter word, and the
approach it crystallizes,... Sep. 22, 2006 07:30 AM Reads: 11,556 | Social Computing Will
Turn the Web World Upside
Down By Jeremy Geelan  Since most any two words
can and will be put
together in this world,
what with us being Homo
Loquens and all, it's
easy just to shrug when
you hear new colloquies
like 'social software,'
'social networking,' or
'social computing' and
dismiss them as just
three mor... Sep. 19, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 15,288 | Time To Decide On the
BOFs for AJAXWorld 2006 By Jeremy Geelan In October the first ever
AJAXWorld will burst into
life as the most
energetic event yet
anywhere in the world
devoted exclusively to
AJAX, RIAs, Web 2.0 and
beyond...but how about
the grassroots stuff?
It's time to nail down
the topics and BOF
leaders for this ye... Sep. 19, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 13,362 Replies: 4 | Jeremy Geelan's Social
Computing Blog: From
"Charlotte's Web" to Web
2.0 By Jeremy Geelan  Web 2.0 is putting me
back in touch with all
that was good about those
pre-Web days: putting me
back in control, if you
like. Instead of
webmasters, let alone
media moguls. That is why
it is so fascinating to
watch the players act out
their parts. For example
that... Sep. 14, 2006 04:30 AM Reads: 19,624 Replies: 3 | AJAX Has Changed the
Landscape of the Web
Forever By Jeremy Geelan With IBM joining the
event as a Gold Sponsor,
the lineup of charter
sponsors and exhibitors
of the conference now
comprises some of the
leading AJAX technology
providers in the world,
including Adobe, IBM,
TIBCO, Backbase,
ComponentArt, Helmi
Technologies, Laszlo ... Sep. 13, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 16,049 Replies: 5 | "Web 2.0" Questions
Dominate the Fall
Conference Season By Jeremy Geelan When AJAXWorld Magazine's
editor-in-chief Dion
Hinchcliffe asked
recently 'Is 'Web 2.0'
Really About the Web, or
Us?' he touched a vein. Sep. 11, 2006 01:15 PM Reads: 15,071 Replies: 6 | The "Perfect Storm" of
Web 2.0 Disruption By Jeremy Geelan The current storm of
change in Web development
and online business
models, coming as it does
together with a
simultaneous revolution
in the way that users are
choosing to use the Web,
is an opportunity for us
all. Sep. 7, 2006 05:30 AM Reads: 32,047 Replies: 10 | Tim Berners-Lee Comes
Under Fire: Is It Time He
Let Go of "Web 1.0"? By Jeremy Geelan 'The love is in the
letting go,' they say.
But the creator of the
World Wide Web, Sir Tim
Berners-Lee, may be
having difficulty
relinquishing custody of
his brainchild, 'Web
1.0,' and allowing it to
evolve and grow...into
Web 2.0. Sep. 5, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 18,341 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Events Are
Multiplying, "AJAX
Wildfire" Has Broken Out! By Jeremy Geelan Here, with apologies for
those where I suppose, as
Conference Chair, I ought
properly to recuse
myself, is my personal
set of recommendations
for the Top Five Events
To Attend in what's left
of 2006. Aug. 31, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 10,349 | As Google's SaaS Assault
Begins, Move Over
Microsoft Office? By Jeremy Geelan  Does the arrival of
'Google Apps for your
Domain' sound the
death-knell for Redmond's
world domination? That is
the question sweeping the
industry this week as the
owner of the world's
most-used search engine
released a set of hosted
applications 'for
organization... Aug. 30, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 25,800 Replies: 6 | AJAX in Perspective
– "Everything Old
Is New Again," Notes
Mitchell Kertzman By Jeremy Geelan 'What AJAX has brought to
the world,' says Mitchell
Kertzman, longtime
venture capitalist with
Hummer Winblad but still
inevitably known as the
founder of PowerSoft and
subsequent chairman and
CEO of Sybase, 'is a hint
that we can have both a
browser client AND a rich
UI.' Aug. 29, 2006 07:30 AM Reads: 12,365 |
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