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The results of our second annual Ajaxian.com survey, prepared by Richard Monson-Hafael from the Burton Group, are in. And the winner is… Prototype, the most popular Ajax framework, by a considerable margin: 43% of you use it. Script.aculo.us is next, at 33%, confirming observations that many of made of the popularity of that duo.
The full results of our framework survey follow:
Note that multiple responses per participant were allowed; we’ve also thrown out any result with less than 3% of responses in the above graphic.
We also asked you about the server-side platform you’re using. The big winner here was PHP, with 50% of you using it:
Some other interesting factoids:
- 25% of you eschew frameworks and work with XMLHttpRequest directly (wow!)
- 11% of you are using JSON to transfer data; unfortunately, we didn’t ask enough questions to determine how this compares with XML or other data formats
- 3% of you are still using Microsoft’s “classic” ASP framework; five of you (~0.6%) are using C++ (+2 points for increased performance, -100 for increased complexity?)
- 2% of you wrote in to say that you’re using Adobe’s Flex toolkit (hey, those banner ads are working out…); 2% also indicated that they use the Flex/Ajax bridge. Unfortunately, the survey software we used doesn’t let us correlate these entries, so we can only say that 2%-4% of you are using Flex in some way
- One participant uses Delphi (how’s that working out for you?), and another is using LISP (can we hire you?).
The survey results are based on 865 participants over the course of a week in September, 2006. The raw results are available.
UPDATED: Changed the wording of the Adobe Flex bullet above to be more accurate.
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TechMeme is focused on technology news. It, along with sister sites Memeorandum (politics), WeSmirch (celebrity gossip) and BallBug (baseball news), is one of the more important technical innovations that has come out of the new web.
Tonight Gabe Rivera, the founder of TechMeme, just invented something else - advertisements delivered via RSS. NOT advertisements embedded withing RSS feeds, but actually using RSS as the delivery mechanism.
You can see the initial ads, which are for sale on TechMeme (details here), in the right sidebar on the home page of the site. The ads are also shown in the image to the left.
Advertisers send the ad to Techmeme via RSS (typically this would come from a blog, but any content would work). If the advertiser wants to change the ad, they simply change the RSS content.
Gabe explains his new ad unit in more detail on his blog here. I also like to get Jeff Jarvis’ opinion on new advertising models - it’s an area he’s become an expert in. His verdict? Thumbs up (and he wants them on his own site).
Our previous posts on TechMeme and Memeorandum are here.
Pew has released its analysis of how the Internet will evolve over the next 14 or so years (2020). I’m inclined to agree with Om Malik that the conclusions about the technology are rather obvious: “a global, low-cost network will be thriving in 2020″, which will bring about a “‘flattening’ of the world”. You don’t need to be Stanley Kubrick to figure that out.
The part I enjoyed the most was the section labeled: ‘Thinking ahead to 2020: Some revealing quotations and predictions from the thousands of answers that were submitted to open-ended questions in the survey.’
I don’t know if it was just me, but most of the predictions sounded remarkably like the plots or themes of famous sci-fi books or movies…
Some took inspiration from The Matrix movie…
“The evolution of smart machines: “Fear of enslavement by our creations is an old fear, and a literary tritism. But I fear something worse and much more likely – that sometime after 2020 our machines will become intelligent, evolve rapidly, and end up treating us as pets. We can at least take comfort that there is one worse fate – becoming food – that mercifully is highly unlikely.” – Paul Saffo, forecaster and director of The Institute for the Future”
Others took their cue from 2001: A Space Odyssey…
““Until testing, bug fixing, user interfaces, usefulness and basic application by subjectmatter experts is given a higher priority than pure programmer skill, we are totally in danger of evolving into an out-of-control situation with autonomous technology.” – Elle Tracy, president of The Results Group”
There was the obligatory William Gibson-inspired Virtual Reality fantasy:
“The allure of virtual reality: “A human’s desire is to reinvent himself, live out his fantasies, overindulge; addiction will definitely increase. Whole communities/subcultures, which even today are a growing faction, will materialise. We may see a vast blurring of virtual/real reality with many participants living an in-effect secluded lifestyle. Only in the online world will they participate in any form of human interaction.” – Robert Eller, technology consultant”
Even the boardgame Monopoly was evoked…
“How information disseminates: “Profit motives will impede data flow … Networks will conform to the public utility model, with stakeholders in generation, transmission, and distribution. Companies playing in each piece of the game will enact roadblocks to collect what they see as their fair share of tariff revenue.” – Peter Kim, senior analyst, Forrester Research”
But don’t get me wrong, I love reading this stuff! It’s just that I usually get my fix of such content from sci-fi books and movies 
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