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From InsideRIA:
Big news for one of the shining lights in the VOIP, Flex and AIR world this morning. Ribbit was acquired by BT.

Ribbit has been acquired by BT one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services. This marks the most important day yet in Ribbit’s history. As part of BT will be able to more quickly extend our vision beyond Silicon Valley and bring our products and technology to the entire world. We couldn’t be more excited than to announce this new partnership.

From InsideRIA:
Grant Skinner has been thinking about and researching open sources licenses. I think this is timely blog post that everyone involved in software should take a look to get a quick high level understanding of the most popular open source licenses.

Congrats to Greg Scott and the Jiibe team for taking the 12th spot in this years PICK 20 list. It’s list put together by public selection and the final 20 are ranked by a panel of judges which comprised a group of experts in technology and business. PICK 20 is put on by Backbone Magazine and KPMG.

12. Jiibe
www.jiibe.com

For people considering a career move, Jiibe promises to help them “make better decisions for a happier life.

“I liked this one a lot, Moffitt said. “A fortune is spent recruiting talent. Here, companies and recruits can both benefit through the use of user-generated content and personality testing. Shuttleworth summed it up as “Monster meets Match.com with a dash of LinkedIn, but Geist was more cautious: “It’s an interesting site but I’m skeptical about its ability to deliver.

Nitobi helped Jiibe take their concept from idea to reality, and they aren’t finished yet. Expect more cutting corporate apps company from this start up in the coming months.

A big shout out to some of our other friends like Avi and the crew from DabbleDB, Nick Bouton the one man army behind Protagonize (Nick was also the lead developer on ThoughtFarmer), Weston from SomethingSimpler ,and Coleen from MovieSet! Go Cannucks!

Congrats again guys and keep up the good work!

It’s amazing that such a substantial part of Vancouver can be without power for so long. And this is a big area:

Luckily there are a lot of good coffee shops with wifi and power outlets. We first took refuge at Trees on Granville.

But finally for yesterday afternoon and all of today we set up shop at Alexei’s place since he lives a block from the office. Of course group home offices have their perks, such as BBQs for lunch. Mind you things can get a bit out of hand sometimes. Brock had things mostly under control though…

Anyway things have been alive and well through out the outages for Nitobi since we’re all on laptops and have recently outsource our code repository to SVNRepository.com. All our projects are cruising along nicely. But for the time being please use email or call my cellphone at 778 999 9287 if you need to reach us. Apparently BC Hydro might be down until Thursday at 8pm so stick with us!

From InsideRIA:
The Flex 4 SDK, code named Gumbo, is up for download now. This is an exciting time for Flex, it’s now 2 full versions beyond Flex 2 which was really the first version of Flex that gained mainstream adoption. Adobe is really working hard to get ready for the release of Flash 10 and Thermo.

From InsideRIA:
I always find it interesting when the web design practice gets a little more attention from the broader business industry. And that’s exactly what BusinessWeek has done, they’ve interviewed a group of web design luminaries to come up with a list of the top 10 rules web designers should follow. They’ve also compiled a slideshow of best of the web which is composed of 25 top picks from the design gurus they interviewed.

From InsideRIA:
Web monitoring company, Pingdom, decided the to look into the most popular Ajax frameworks.

“The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit.

We quickly saw that Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit were not used at all by these sites, which lead us to focus on the other four in this article.”

From InsideRIA:
Last month while on the On AIR Tour in Europe, Dion managed do a quick video chat in Munich. In this interview Dion and I chat about the new things happening in App Engine including opening it up and pricing. The Dion tells us about Google has started hosting the JavaScript files for certain Ajax libraries.

From InsideRIA:
In this episode I get an overview of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI ) from Nate Koechley. We cover topics including how Nate got started there, the various elements in YUI, why Yahoo builds and maintains this library. We also touched on some of the more unique elements of Yahoo’s offering for JavaScript developers including their integration with Flash, the Yahoo Pattern Library and how Yahoo plans to get more open source with their code.