'The AJAX Moment' Mushrooms into The Web 2.0 Movement - Posted by Michael Fomkin

Early in 2006, before the general Internet-using public was aware of what I began referring to—in editorials, blog entries, and SYS-CON’s Internet TV webcasts—as “The AJAX Moment,” there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches, if not actually AJAX itself, were a shoo-in as the new paradigm for the development of Web 2.0 and the fulfillment of the software development community’s long-held dream of complete freedom from operating system or runtime environment dependent technologies.