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Jeremy Geelan

Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine 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.
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Web 2.0 'Goes Mainstream' By Jeremy Geelan  For those who think that
one weakness of the
Newsweek piece is its
title, MSNBC has come to
the rescue by repurposing
it under the - in my
view, far sharper- title
'The New Wisdom of the
Web.' This is a much more
powerful rallying cry and
I, for one, should have
m... Jul. 29, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 24,530 Replies: 3 | What Are the Twenty Best
"Web 2.0" Books? By Jeremy Geelan 'The Web 2.0 world is
fast changing. It
requires continuous
learning. It requires
good books.' With that
contention the
CEO-cum-technology author
Alex Iskold has launched
a campaign to compile the
best booklist for anyone
wanting to get up to
speed Web 2.0
techn... Jul. 28, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 13,864 Replies: 2 | Is There Life Beyond
Google? By Jeremy Geelan  In one of my (several)
former professional
lives, I used to publish
books about the future,
including, for example,
the world's first
full-length book about
groupware. Unless we can
first capture and
thereafter harvest -
asynchronously, as and
when it is most need... Jul. 24, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 21,669 Replies: 1 | Adobe Flex 2: Experience
the Revolution By Jeremy Geelan  At SYS-CON Media's SOA
Web Services Edge
Conference in New York
City, we had a chance to
sit down with David
Mendels, general manager
of Adobe, to discuss
Adobe's acquisition of
Macromedia, Flex, RIA,
and more. Jul. 18, 2006 04:15 PM Reads: 26,355 Replies: 4 | EOS Interview —
Open Source and
Middleware By Jeremy Geelan  We're here with Pierre
Fricke, director of
product management at
JBoss, at LinuxWorld in
Boston. JBoss has made
about 77 announcements
and it's only day two,
and there's some other
stuff we must get onto.
Thank you for joining us
Pierre. Jul. 15, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 20,325 | i-Technology Blog:
Welcome to the New
"Golden World" of Web 2.0
and Beyond By Jeremy Geelan Many commentators,
analysts, executives, and
software developers so
far this year have been
processing the arrival of
what has been dubbed 'Web
2.0' with sage prudence
born of having seen Web
2.0's bubble-like
characteristics once
before, with Web
1.0...and having... Jul. 7, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 22,688 Replies: 1 | What Makes Users
Passionate? By Jeremy Geelan The four bloggers behind
the Creating Passionate
Users blog are all
passionate about the
brain and metacognition.
Two of the four are also
the co-creators of the
Head First book series
published by O'Reilly. So
it is hardly surprising
that, when one of the
four - ... Jun. 22, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 9,751 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Blog: Is
There Life Beyond Google? By Jeremy Geelan What comes after Google?
Where will the Web, the
Internet, the whole nexus
of telecommunications,
i-Technology, and the
quest for a better world,
take us? Jun. 14, 2006 07:30 AM Reads: 21,196 | Google's Bosworth Wields
His Invisible Hand; Scott
McNealy's Final Top 10
List? By Jeremy Geelan  Ever since Google
realized that 12% of the
population would consult
Google prior to seeing a
doctor, which was
followed by a British
Medical Journal editorial
suggesting that one of
the natural next steps
for Google would be some
kind of medical database
for perso... Jun. 9, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 20,836 Replies: 3 | "Hard Work Pays Off"
– Exclusive Q&A
with Alan Meckler,
Chairman and CEO,
Jupitermedia Corporation By Jeremy Geelan  In the seven brief years
since selling
Mecklermedia, the
Chairman and CEO of
Jupitermedia - Alan
Meckler - appears to have
packed in what most
business leaders would
happily have accepted as
their lifetime's
achievement. SYS-CON
Media group publisher and
editori... Jun. 3, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 32,446 Replies: 5 | Open-Sourcing Java:
"Using a GPL License Is
Very Much *On* the
Table," Says Sun's CEO By Jeremy Geelan 'We're now making serious
progress on open sourcing
Java,' writes Sun CEO
Jonathan Schwartz, 'while
focusing the debate on
what matters most: not
access to lines of code
(that's already widely
available), but ensuring
compatibility.' Schwartz
was writing in his
'J... May. 30, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 18,060 Replies: 2 | Welcome to Web
Developer's & Designer's
Journal By Jeremy Geelan  The advisability of
eating in your own
kitchen is something you
often hear about, but
never does it make more
sense than when applied
in the world of software
development. Why accept
that service-oriented
architecture is a must
for your mission-critical
backend sy... May. 17, 2006 06:15 PM Reads: 21,198 Replies: 1 | JavaOne 2006: Schwartz's
New Broom at Sun Sweeps
Java Developers To Center
Stage By Jeremy Geelan At the annual JavaOne
event that he calls the
'epicenter' of his
mission to remake Sun's
business by making the
company deeply relevant
to developers, CEO
Jonathan Schwartz
yesterday wooed attendees
with a keynote designed
to underline how much Sun
views as a coll... May. 17, 2006 08:15 AM Reads: 16,152 Replies: 9 | "Google Health" Launched
Very Googily, Adam
Bosworth Style: "If It
Gets Used, It'll Get
Developed Further" By Jeremy Geelan Ever since Google
realized that 12% of
individuals would consult
Google prior to seeing a
doctor, followed by a
British Medical Journal
editorial suggesting that
one of the natural next
steps for Google would be
some kind of medical
database for personal
use, the ... May. 15, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 14,783 Replies: 2 | Sun's Jonathan Schwartz
"Has Made Sun Interesting
Again," Says OSDL's CEO By Jeremy Geelan Out of the blue, with its
unstoppable passion for
homing in on THE issue of
the day, the world's
most-read business
magazine - BusinessWeek -
has triangulated on Java
as one of the the
software world's key
ignition points right
now. May. 12, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 23,605 Replies: 21 | i-Technology Blog: Google
Trends on Java, McNealy,
AJAX, and SOA Give Pause
For Thought By Jeremy Geelan Like so many of the ideas
that tumble out of the
Googleplex into the
public domain, Google
Trends is irresistible.
Jeremy Geelan puts the
application, newly taken
out of beta and now
available to all
cyberspace from the
Google main page, through
its paces by takin... May. 12, 2006 09:15 AM Reads: 25,039 Replies: 7 | Web 2.0 Has Truly Arrived
in Main Street By Jeremy Geelan  When newsstands
throughout America on
Monday, March 27, started
displaying the April 3
issue of Newsweek with
its cover story about Web
2.0 - 'Putting the 'We'
in Web' - it seems to me
that we have reached one
of Malcolm Gladwell's
now-famous Tipping
Points. May. 10, 2006 12:15 PM Reads: 15,499 Replies: 9 | Open-Sourcing Java: The
Great Debate Continues
Web-Wide By Jeremy Geelan  AS well as examining the
past comments about the
prospects of an
open-source Java by
Jonathan Schwartz, now
CEO of Sun, today's
round-up of influencers
and their opinions
includes the thoughts of
LinuxQuestions.org
founder Jeremy Garcia. May. 5, 2006 12:45 AM Reads: 16,162 Replies: 1 | Flashback to '04: IBM to
Sun – "Let's
Collaborate on
Open-Sourcing Java" By Jeremy Geelan Two years ago Rod Smith,
IBM Software's VP of
Emerging Technologies
(and still with IBM
today), wrote an open
letter to Rob Gingell,
Sun's Chief Engineer (now
with Cassatt). IBM, Smith
said, 'would like to work
with Sun on an
independent project to
open source Java.' May. 4, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 53,588 Replies: 12 | Open-Sourcing Java: The
Great Debate Begins Again By Jeremy Geelan 'The fact that there is
so much discussion going
on is of interest,' wrote
Sun's John Clingan in his
blog yesterday. The
discussion is 'all over
the map,' Clingan noted:
'Some like the idea of
Open Source Java. Some
think that will
negatively affect WORA.
There do... May. 4, 2006 09:30 AM Reads: 19,532 Replies: 4 | Flashback to '04: Now
Come the
Counter-Arguments Against
Open-Sourcing Java By Jeremy Geelan Every action has an equal
and opposite reaction,
according to the third of
Sir Isaac Newton's laws
of physics: if you push
on anything, it pushes
back on you. That's why
if you lean against the
wall, you don't just fall
through it, and that's
also why ESR's Open
L... May. 4, 2006 03:00 AM Reads: 39,260 Replies: 11 | Flashback to '04: Gosling
Says "Open-Sourcing Java
Could Promote
Interoperability" By Jeremy Geelan 'Carefully done,
open-sourcing [Java]
could actually promote
interoperability by
making it easier for
disparate groups to align
behind one code base,'
wrote Sun's James Gosling
in his widely read
java.net blog at the end
of April 2004. May. 4, 2006 02:15 AM Reads: 48,424 Replies: 26 | What Makes AJAX So
Special? AjaxWorld
Magazine's Executive
Survey By Jeremy Geelan  Not since the formation
of NATO in 1945 have four
letters been combined to
such effect, nor has any
4-letter acronym since
then been the subject of
such hyperbole. (Quod
erat demonstrandum.) Apr. 27, 2006 09:15 AM Reads: 36,053 Replies: 6 | The Week in i-Technology:
Nokia Back Big-Time,
Ellison Still Hungry for
Growth, McNealy
Relinquishing His Grip? By Jeremy Geelan Some weeks in any
industry seem longer than
others; as far as
i-Technology industry
goes, the week just ended
seemed to last about a
month. How else is one to
explain how there can
possibly have been room
for all that happened,
from the return to
center-stage of L... Apr. 22, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 14,323 Replies: 3 | SYS-CON.TV Exclusive
Interview with the Father
of the Term "AJAX"
– Jesse James
Garrett By Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan for
SYS-CON.TV from the
'Real-World AJAX' seminar
with Jesse James Garrett,
Mr. 'Real-World AJAX'
himself. Apr. 17, 2006 02:15 AM Reads: 25,988 | Does i-Technology Matter? By Jeremy Geelan  When Nicholas Carr posed
the question 'Does IT
Matter?' in his
now-famous Harvard
Business Review essay, he
clearly knew that it
would provoke discussion.
He probably didn't know,
on the other hand, that
it would eventually cause
the world's richest man -
whose we... Apr. 12, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 23,983 Replies: 4 | "If You Can't Extinguish
It, Embrace It" –
Microsoft Launches Linux
Love-In By Jeremy Geelan Bill Hilf, head of
Microsoft's open-source
and Linux lab, has just
given a keynote address
at LinuxWorld Conference
& Expo in Boston about
making proprietary
programs such as those
produced by Microsoft
interoperate better with
open source software. Apr. 5, 2006 04:30 AM Reads: 13,859 Replies: 6 | i-Technology Opinion: No
Way Has Innovation in
Open Source Reached Its
Limit By Jeremy Geelan 'Linux is good at doing
what other things already
have done, but more
cheaply - but can it do
anything new?' That's the
question asked by Steven
Weber, a political
scientist at the
University of California
at Berkeley, in an
article in The Economist
this week - on... Mar. 19, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 19,090 Replies: 5 | SYS-CON.TV Exclusive:
Sun's James Gosling on
the "Java Career Path" By Jeremy Geelan 'Unlike Pascal,' said
James Gosling last week,
'Java has actually got a
career path that follows
on from what you learn.'
He was speaking during a
SYS-CON.TV interview with
SYS-CON Media's group
publisher Jeremy Geelan. Mar. 12, 2006 06:45 AM Reads: 17,327 Replies: 2 | From the Group Publisher:
The Art of Progress By Jeremy Geelan  We're not even at the end
of the first quarter yet,
and 2006 seems already to
have brought with it as
much change in the world
of Internet technologies
as all four quarters of
2005 combined. Despite
the headline-grabbing
mega-deals of '05, in '06
the mid-market is s... Mar. 8, 2006 06:00 PM Reads: 14,565 Replies: 1 | Are 'Paternity' Suits the
Latest Phenomenon in
i-Technology? By Jeremy Geelan  Almost anyone who writes
about Internet
technologies, or
i-Technology in
shorthand, runs into a
problem area from time to
time concerning the issue
of what in the
i-Technology world was
invented by whom? Mar. 8, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 16,848 Replies: 1 | Longtime Adobe Developer
Gives Insider's View of
Flex & AJAX By Jeremy Geelan 'One of the questions
that comes up a lot when
we're talking about Flex
with web developers is
'How does this relate to
AJAX?'' writes Ely
Greenfield, a long time
developer at
Macromedia/now Adobe on
the engineering team
behind the design and
development of the Flex
SDK. Mar. 8, 2006 09:15 AM Reads: 22,874 Replies: 2 | i-Technology Blog:
Death-Knell For "Rich
Media? Hardly! By Jeremy Geelan  When a San Francisco web
development company was
on February 14 assigned a
US patent covering the
use of rich-media
applications on the
Internet, it was always
going to be only a matter
of time before the
self-same Internet
exploded with concern and
astonishment. ... Mar. 4, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 58,163 Replies: 10 | New AJAX Website Goes
Live: AJAX.sys-con.com By Jeremy Geelan  If you want to learn AJAX
you should probably buy a
few books, buy an AJAX
IDE, and go to a few
training classes. But
first, why not mingle
with people that already
know it, by visiting the
very latest and
fastest-growing AJAX
website,
http://ajax.sys-con.com -
... Mar. 3, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 29,699 Replies: 4 | As Oracle Recommits to
Java, Sun Sweeps 2005
RCAs By Jeremy Geelan  Every year for the past
10 years, SYS-CON Media's
'Readers' Choice Awards'
have given the multiple
constituencies we serve -
developers, architects,
IT managers, vendors - a
chance to exercise their
democratic rights, not
just through the ballot
box but also through... Feb. 11, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 19,037 Replies: 3 | Adobe Has Inherited Web
History from
Macromedia... By Jeremy Geelan One of the 'inflexion
points' of the
development of the Web,
when commentators and
analysts draw breath for
long enough to chronicle
its history, is certain
to be the day that
Google, through first
Gmail and then Google
Maps, opened the eyes of
millions to the fac... Feb. 8, 2006 03:30 AM Reads: 29,862 Replies: 2 | Google Images Vindicated
in Latest "Censorship"
Alert By Jeremy Geelan Charles Arthur, editor of
'Technology Guardian' - a
section of the UK
national Daily The
Guardian - thought he was
on to something big. But
the blogosphere quickly
corrected him. The net
result? A triumph for
Capitalism - literally!!
Read on for the
explanation... Jan. 31, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 13,124 Replies: 3 | The Week in Microsoft:
Redmond Reports
Record-High Quarter
– $11.84BN By Jeremy Geelan Kevin Turner, chief
operating officer at
Microsoft, and the
company's CFO Chris
Liddell were able on
Thursday to announce
revenue of $11.84 billion
for the quarter ended
December 31, 2005, a 9%
increase over the same
period of the prior year,
marking the highest
... Jan. 29, 2006 06:15 PM Reads: 13,221 | Java, .NET, SOA, Web
Services, Linux, XML,
Open Source and AJAX
Predictions for 2006 By Jeremy Geelan  This is traditionally the
time of year for SYS-CON
Media's roundup of
i-Technology predictions
from around the Web and
the year's harvest of
thoughts and viewpoints.
According to our
worldwide network of
software development
activists, evangelists,
and executives,... Jan. 18, 2006 08:15 AM Reads: 29,989 | Oracle-Sun Announcement:
Sun's Schwartz Sets the
Record Straight By Jeremy Geelan  'Please don't read
[anything] in to my not
being at Sun's recent
announcement with
Oracle,' wrote Sun's
president and COO
Jonathan Schwartz the
weekend after Sun
(represented not by
Jonathan but by Scott
McNealy) and Oracle
(represented by Larry
Ellison) announc... Jan. 17, 2006 02:45 AM Reads: 23,156 Replies: 1 |
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