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Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

TL;DR: The same simplicity that enabled the Web’s rapid proliferation also creates a gap between the experiences Web interaction designers can provide and the experiences users can get from a desktop application.
Abstract: Despite this, Web interaction designers can’t help but feel a little envious of our colleagues who create desktop software. Desktop applications have a richness and responsiveness that has seemed out of reach on the Web. The same simplicity that enabled the Web’s rapid proliferation also creates a gap between the experiences we can provide and the experiences users can get from a desktop application.

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TL;DR: This paper was the first initiative to try to define Web 2.0 and understand its implications for the next generation of software, looking at both design patterns and business modes.
Abstract: This paper was the first initiative to try to define Web2.0 and understand its implications for the next generation of software, looking at both design patterns and business modes. Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the web is entering a "second phase" -a new, "improved" Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?
Abstract: Within 15 years the web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory stage. These trends have led to a feeling that the web is entering a ‘second phase’ – a new, ‘improved’ Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?

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TL;DR: HealthMap is a useful free and open resource employing text processing algorithms to identify important disease outbreak information through a user-friendly interface and demonstrates significant usefulness in managing the large volume of information processed by the system.

449 citations


Cites methods from "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applica..."

  • ...0” technologies(19) including the proliferation of Really Simple Syndication (RSS)(20) and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).(21,22) These tools create new opportunities for interactive software such as HealthMap....

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TL;DR: This paper from the 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications, FNC 2014 conference proceedings describes a wireless sensor network system developed using open-source hardware platforms, Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

373 citations

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TL;DR: A structured and comprehensive overview of the literature in the field of Web Data Extraction is provided, namely applications at the Enterprise level and at the Social Web level, which allows to gather a large amount of structured data continuously generated and disseminated by Web 2.0, Social Media and Online Social Network users.
Abstract: Web Data Extraction is an important problem that has been studied by means of different scientific tools and in a broad range of applications. Many approaches to extracting data from the Web have been designed to solve specific problems and operate in ad-hoc domains. Other approaches, instead, heavily reuse techniques and algorithms developed in the field of Information Extraction.This survey aims at providing a structured and comprehensive overview of the literature in the field of Web Data Extraction. We provided a simple classification framework in which existing Web Data Extraction applications are grouped into two main classes, namely applications at the Enterprise level and at the Social Web level. At the Enterprise level, Web Data Extraction techniques emerge as a key tool to perform data analysis in Business and Competitive Intelligence systems as well as for business process re-engineering. At the Social Web level, Web Data Extraction techniques allow to gather a large amount of structured data continuously generated and disseminated by Web 2.0, Social Media and Online Social Network users and this offers unprecedented opportunities to analyze human behavior at a very large scale. We discuss also the potential of cross-fertilization, i.e., on the possibility of re-using Web Data Extraction techniques originally designed to work in a given domain, in other domains.

364 citations


Cites methods from "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applica..."

  • ...stems [98]. Among the most important automation features we cite the possibility to simulate the click stream of the user, lling forms and selecting menus and buttons, the support for AJAX technology [49] to handle the asynchronous updating of the page and the ability of scheduling Web data extraction procedures on a periodical basis. Data transformation. Information could be wrapped from multiple sou...

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