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When it comes to branding your product, what considerations are you making for search engine optimization? Obviously, the value of creating a distinct and memorable name is foundational, but how easy will it be for your consumers to find your website using Google?

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If you write JavaScript at any level you most likely have used or at least heard of the ever so popular libraries that everyone is using. If not, here’s a quick overview of the perks that each one I’ve checked out has in one form or another.

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I recently stumbled across a few sites that talk about utilizing an iframe ‘hack’ to support forward/back buttons as well as book-marking in AJAX web apps. Mac loyalists - don’t get too excited! At the time of this writing it will not work in Safari.

Here is the article:
http://onjava.com/lpt/a/6293

And notes from the author:
http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2005/09/safari-no-dhtml-history-possible.html

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This is one of the best discussions I’ve seen about the practical advantages and disadvantages of using AJAX versus Flash for RIA’s (rich internet apps). It points out how using AJAX and Ruby on Rails can speed up development time when compared to building those same RIA’s in Flash. I think its interesting that this discussion is happening on JD’s blog over at Macromedia/Adobe.

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/02/ajax_dhtmlxmlht.cfm

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This site seems to have some good links on AJAX tutorials for anyone looking to learn AJAX without digging through nested pages:

http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/resources/programming/xmlhttprequest/tutorials

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