SMash donated to OpenAjax Alliance

For those of you who haven't heard, we announced SMash yesterday (secure mashup technology), and donated it to the OpenAjax Alliance. The net-net of SMash is that it allows information from different sources to communicate with each other, but the sources are kept separate to prevent the spread of malicious code. It essentially keeps code and data from each of the sources separated while allowing controlled sharing of data through a secure communication channel - easing worries about security when building mashup apps.

(a) This is a very cool technology, and I'm excited about that but...

(b) I am *really* happy that this landed in the OpenAjax Alliance. I always like to see good technology being used and adopted by the community, and I think this especially makes sense for OpenAjax, as this is a great fit - essentially enabling safer client side cross-domain access to multiple sites - allowing for easier, secure mixing of different technologies. Let's just say it will help a lot of devs sleep better at night knowing their stuff is secure :)

This is exciting too, as we head into AjaxWorld next week in NYC. I'll be there talking about Info 2.0, as will David Boloker, Mark Heid, and Dan Gisolfi - and a few others from IBM. And if you're in NYC early, David and I will also be speaking at the Mashery.com API conference - so swing on by...

/LC