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Alex Iskold
Alex Iskold is the Founder and CEO of adaptiveblue (http://www.adaptiveblue.com), where he is developing browser personalization technology. His previous startup, Information Laboratory, created innovative software analysis and visualization tool called Small Worlds. After Information Laboratory was acquired by IBM, Alex worked as the architect of IBM Rational Software Analysis tools. Before starting adaptiveblue, Alex was the Chief Architect at DataSynapse, where he developed GridServer and FabricServer virtualization platforms. He holds M.S. in Computer Science from New York University, where he taught an award-winning software engineering class for undergraduate students. He can be reached at alex.iskold@gmail.com. |
AJAX Patterns:
Introducing
JavaScriptBeans –
Bringing JavaBeans to
JavaScript By Alex Iskold Six month ago, Alex
Iskold switched from J2EE
Grid Computing to Web
2.0, JavaScript and
Firefox extension
development. He has been
writing in Web 2.0
Journal about his
experiences - see 'From
J2EE to JavaScript.' This
is the next instalment... Oct. 23, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 13,410 Replies: 1 | Firefox 2.0: Burning the
Fire to Outfox IE By Alex Iskold It has been just two
years since Firefox
appeared on the scene,
but this Mozilla browser
has surely changed the
rules of the game.
Firefox brought back the
spirit, the innovation
and the crowds of
followers. Firefox is not
only the underdog we are
rooting for, it... Oct. 19, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 10,304 Replies: 1 | Towards the
Infrastructure for
Attention Ecosystem By Alex Iskold With this article I hope
to reach out to the
companies and thought
leaders working in the
attention space and start
the dialog on the
infrastructure for the
Attention Economy. Note
that the views presented
in this article are my
own and do not represent
the views ... Oct. 12, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 8,086 | The Emerging "Attention
Platform" – From
Attention to
Personalization By Alex Iskold Last week I wrote here
about the need to work
out the architecture of
attention. This week I
will focus on a specific
application attention
platform:
personalization. My
article last week
generated really
interesting and important
discussion about the the
value ... Sep. 25, 2006 09:15 AM Reads: 8,070 Replies: 4 | What Does the
"Architecture of
Attention" Look Like? By Alex Iskold To make the concept of
attention compelling and
to prove to the consumers
that their attention
information is important,
we need to build
applications that provide
useful services. And to
build these applications
we need a platform for
the attention players to
plu... Sep. 18, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 13,314 Replies: 8 | Web 2.0 Journal Feature:
Google Plays API Catch-Up
with Amazon By Alex Iskold The Google Base API is
like Amazon S3 on
steroids. In addition to
pure storage capability,
this API comes with
concept of RSS-based
structured data types,
ability to automatically
index and search the
data, as well as storing
and publish things via
RSS. It is inte... Aug. 23, 2006 02:15 AM Reads: 9,658 Replies: 4 | Amazon - The Real Web
Services Company By Alex Iskold I am biased writing this
article because my
company is a big user of
Amazon Web Services. But
please read on and see
why I am so excited about
what the largest online
retailer is doing these
days. Not only Amazon is
the real Web Services
company now, it is
becomin... Aug. 17, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 22,629 Replies: 2 | User Interface 2.0 By Alex Iskold One of the things that
attracts us all to Web
2.0 is that it is slick.
Stuff pops up, floats,
appears and disappears
showcasing us the power
of effects possible with
today's JavaScript. We
sit there in awe,
thinking, wow, that was
cool! Cool is what
compels us to ... Aug. 10, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 13,814 Replies: 4 | The Web 2.0 Bookshelf By Alex Iskold  The new web is all about
creativity,
cross-pollination of
concepts, media and
information. But what
fuels this new web is
networks. In his recent
article, Dion Hinchcliffe
calls social networks the
Web 2.0 secret sauce.
Very rightly so, because
networks are one of... Jul. 21, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 11,289 Replies: 6 | Alex Iskold's "AJAX
Patterns" Series:
Concurrent Document
Loader Pattern By Alex Iskold Pattern: Concurrent
Document Loader
Problem: Need to load
multiple documents and
can't proceed until all
of them are loaded
Example: Load
configuration files for
an AJAX application Jul. 17, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 20,438 Replies: 1 | Alex Iskold's "AJAX
Patterns" Series: From
Java to JavaScript By Alex Iskold In the beginning of 2006,
Alex Iskold - after
spending the last 10
years of his career
programming in Java -
took off his Java hat and
started a Web 2.0 company
called adaptiveblue. In
this Web 2.0 Journal
exclusive, he shares his
insights on transitioning
from Ja... Jun. 30, 2006 06:15 AM Reads: 16,354 Replies: 3 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
How Amazon S3 is Going to
Change the World By Alex Iskold Amazon S3 is an
innovative, exciting new
service that is going to
change the way we do
computing on the web.
Even though the service
launched just a few
months ago, numerous
companies are already
leveraging it for a wide
range of purposes. Jun. 12, 2006 05:30 AM Reads: 36,826 Replies: 5 | Smart Browser, Where Art
Thou? By Alex Iskold In 1998, I got my hands
on Mitchell Waldrop's
book called 'Complexity'.
Ever since, I've been on
an amazing journey
discovering one of the
most profound
developments in modern
science. Complexity, or
more formally, the study
of complex systems, is
about unifying t... May. 25, 2006 06:15 PM Reads: 14,630 Replies: 6 | The "Webification" of the
Desktop: What Are the
Implications for Web 2.0
and AJAX? By Alex Iskold There's no reason why our
desktop applications
cannot be web-aware. An
improvement in this area
would drive up our
productivity, because
switching back and forth
between the application
and the browser is very
inefficient. This article
looks at some examples of
ap... May. 25, 2006 08:30 AM Reads: 15,509 Replies: 2 |
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