Sunday, April 09, 2006

Three Cool Ajax Applications


Some time back, AjaxLaunch had announced that they would be releasing a new Ajax based web application every week from then onwards, and they are bang on their target until now, with three such applications released in three weeks time. we have already seen their earlier Ajax based applications ajaxWrite and ajaxSketch, applications that are similar to a desktop word processor(think Microsoft Word) and a paint application(think Microsoft Paint), but which run completely from with in a web browser. the latest to join is ajaxEyespot, that allows videos to be uploaded and edited(like Microsoft MovieMaker) from a web browser, all without having to download or install any application on the local system. try the following links:
AjaxLaunch - the main website

ajaxWrite
ajaxSketch
ajaxEyespot

all of these are still in the beta stages and support only some basic features.

for those who are yet uninitiated with the Ajax technology, the interface of Google Mail, Google Personalised Home, Windows Live etc are all good examples that make use of it. more info is on wikipedia.

Google also seems to be working on a Yahoo! Geocities like service for their GMail users - Google Page Creator. It allow the webpages to be created in WYSIWYG format, which doesn't require any HTML knowledge on the user's part. Read a simple review by pandia.

any guesses what it will be the next week(12th April) from AjaxLaunch? a charting application? or a jukebox? spreadsheet? stay tuned.