The gang at Google Labs have announced a new hosted AJAX library solution intended to provide a globally-available, load-balanced sets of common used toolsets which are often used in the development of web-based applications.

A tweet is a short message sent via Twitter, a social network most often employing cell phones or instant messaging platforms. You can see tweets on a map of the world at http://twittervision.com/

In recent research completed by Gartner Group, analyst Adam Sarner adds Generation Virtual or Generation 'V' into the alphabet soup of generational grouping (e.g., Gen X, Gen Y and so on). Sarner suggests that companies and organizations have to dramatically rethink the way they market online since Gen V presents some extraordinary and unprecedented challenges to traditional assumptions about reaching customers online.

Beware of strangers bearing Hallmark E-Cards. The Hallmark E-Card phish from last summer is back again. Bearing the Hallmark logo, a somewhat reasonable set of options, and sporting a gradient design, it looks almost believable.

Google solicited thousands of entries from K-12 students around the country and selected the top forty (ten doodles for each of the four grade groups). Winners of the contest will be featured on Google's homepage.

We are often asked by our clients at the beginning of an engagement to outline keys to an effective web project. We've likely all seen projects which start off promisingly and end badly -- either over budget or minus the cohesion necessary to meet the desired objectives. And while we can't give away the store for free (it took some convincing before Warner would let me post this!), we offer these three keys to starting -- and finishing -- a project successfully.