The best article on the future of the internet that I've read is an already popular piece by Kevin Kelly.

The last time I read something that summed up the future so nicely it was a nice little article titled, "Ajax: A new approach to Web Applications" by Jesse James Garrett, which is still great and can be found here, just in case you’ve missed it:
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After reading this article you should be able to make your own custom client-side error handler that would allow you to send client-side errors to your backend when running a JSF Edition application.

Late 2007 we released version 4.1.2 of Backbase Enterprise Ajax for JSF, which includes several new features. This article describes the new features that are unique to the JSF Edition, while the new features that are shared with the Client Edition are described in a separate article.

Java has a mature approach to handling localization involving properties files, or 'resource bundles', and the same need exists on the client-side.

Introducing the l:resourceBundle and l:resourceLabel widgets to make localization easy.

Its easy to load some XML data and either create a form using XSLT, or data-bind the form to an XML source document. But what about sending the completed form data back to the server?
You don't always have control over the format the server needs. It could be that an existing service requires an XML document of a certain format to be HTTP POSTed.

This tutorial shows how to generate the XML and includes a new widget to make it simple.

Today we released Backbase 4.1.2, which includes several improvements, such as a new SOAP API, enhanced form validation, several new widgets, new Debugger features, improved data binding, performance, and documentation. The documentation includes revised manuals, improved API references and over a dozen new Example Pages. For more info, see the release notes. To download, please visit http://bdn.backbase.com/download-a

ExtJS is a popular Ajax widget library. While it is possible to uses ExtJS on the same page as Backbase (coexistence), it is sometimes better to wrap a widget. Like Dojo, Yahoo and others, widgets from ExtJS can be wrapped to make them first-class Backbase widgets.

The enhanced listGrid in 4.1 has some powerful features like the ability to intelligently format columns of data. For example, you may want to highlight high values in green and low values in red. You can now do that easily just be adding a dataFormatter.

Backbase, the Ajax Company, and the leading provider of Ajax software and services, is looking for talented people for its Research & Development, Professional Services and Sales teams.

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See our available jobs at: http://www.backbase.com/company/careers/

The brand new Backbase 4.1 Release is now available for download from this site.

The new release adds new functionality and addresses known issues with the Backbase Client Framework.

New and Improved with BB 4.1
• Powerful data binding system re-written from the ground up with examples and documentation
• New CRUD support added for all grids
• New support for JSON
• Greatly improved documentation errata and flow with targeted information for architects, developers and evaluators