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Using Java as an applet is good for where you help the users fix the problems with applets. This is based on my experience for developing a Java Applet for a domain named administration system. After a few months of operation the Java Applet was too difficult to support. It is might be ok for the admin interface, though I recommend AJAX for the front end and Java is fine for the backend.

AJAX compared to Java is not that great, expect the reality is the main stream market likes AJAX allot more. By using a java applet you will limit your user base.

Why it is this way is quite simple, if there is a problem it is too hard to fix. The multi step process to get the errors, email them or speak to you over the phone is very difficult process. Most users would rather not answer the survey. Microsoft made sure Java never made it main stream, hence the billion dollar lawsuit they lost.

Your clients, the ones using a admin interface may be willing to use a Java applet interface and fix problems when the come up. Expect only if you provided features that Java could do better then what AJAX could do and your competitor does not offer a better system.

Mood views looks threw blogs and reads the mood tags off of livejournal blogs. The recording of many peoples personal thoughts have opened new ways of getting feed back. It could provide new means to direct advertising campains, for example say you have a magic product that can cure creative problems. When there is a dip in people felling creative it may be a good time to feature that product.

Mood views

Eli Portnoy talks about his travels on creating Emerging Demographics Inc which has properties much like jobloft.com expect targeting the Latino market.

Startup ceo

HireWorkers.com
LatinoHire.com
BuenaChamba.com

Nisan Gabbay has been writing one review a week on some of the popular startups and their history. Much time and effort is spent on his reviews which produce a good end result. See his posting on why you should subscribe.

Some of his reviews include companies like MySpace, Flickr, Craigslist, Rent.com

Start up Reviews

Jobloft.com has created a job site specific for the Retail, Food Services and Hospitality & Tourism. There are some niche requirements for this market and it will be interesting how things play out for them.

About Jobloft.com

JobLoft.com

In the latest battle on distros, Ubuntu has been started by using Debian source code as its foundation. For a long time Debian has been a great product expect its developers are more concerned about development then marketing.

The weaker marketing from Debians standpoint has opened a spot for Ubuntu and other distributions to copy from them. This is what open source is all about. By Mark Shuttleworth starting with Debian, Ubuntu has an instant set of users and developers.

From the source code Mark Shuttleworth has been building a new community which will provide the product with the help of Mark Shuttleworth's investment. With any investment there is always demaind for a return.

His plans are to generate revenue by handling the installation and escalation support. There is a fair amount of install and escalation support needed for Microsoft and this would not change if users switched to a Linux desktop. The only thing that changes is the initial cost for the Operating system its self.

With that in mind, this is a really a battle of call centers and ubuntu is the carrot.

http://ubuntu.com

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth

http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2006/09/05/linux-ubuntu-opensource_cz_mr_0906shuttleworth.html

The last time I did a review on Stephen Colbert's web site it had some issues. Stephen mentioned on his show it was due to a server crash, which on the Internet often happens. This made me just a little disappointed in his online performance, or lack of.

Stephen Colbert has said he hates the Internet, maybe because the Internet Business is bit by bit taking over his world even if likes it or not. The good news is it is my opinion that the talented people like Stephen Colbert will been the main show soon enough.

Currently the show has a massive potential for its online counter part which may come to bear fruit. I am placing my bets on a upstart like rockboom.com taking the audience vs Colbert being able to keep his.

Hopefully the changes keep coming as this battle will be interesting fire fight between the old and the new.