Tag: AJAX

How often have you visited YouTube to watch online video and thought to yourself, "wouldn't it be great if these video windows acted more like desktop applications?" Well, YouTubeDesktop is stepping up to solve a problem we didn't know anybody had. The web based application is basically a front end for Youtube. When you first visit the site you'll be presented with a thumbnail view of popular ...

Jumptags takes off where other social bookmarking tools might have left off. The web service not only allows users to collect, store, share and distribute web bookmarks, but it also does the same for notes, rss feeds and contact lists. This Web 2.0 application is built with AJAX and officially jumped into beta at the end of April this year and has been achieving a nice following. Signing up for ...

As you know, anything you can do on the web you can do on web 2.0. In the case of checking to see if a domain is available, we've recently come across two new services, Ajax Lookup and Instant Domain Search. Both services will check to see if a domain is taken as you type. At a first glance Ajax Windows would appear to have the edge. It has a prettier interface, and lets you search for 9 ...

Ryan Stewart, Evangelist for Adobe's Integrated Runtime project (AIR), takes a few minutes to tell us what all the fuss is about. Ryan taking part in Adobe's live cross-country bus tour to promote AIR. The tour kicks July 10th at the Elysian Brewing Company in downtown Seattle. DS: Can you briefly describe Adobe AIR? Ryan: Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime that allows you to build desktop ...

At the Google Developer Day a little while ago, Google announced a Mashup Editor that they were releasing. It was by invitation only, and known as an interactive development environment that would allow users to edit, compile, test and manage applications. We recently got the opportunity to check out the interface, and play around with it a bit. The Google Mashup Editor is built off of an AJAX ...

Google has launched an interesting new program that sees developers who design and develop sustainable Google Gadgets, sizable funding grants. The Google Gadget Ventures funding program is open for businesses and individuals who apply to a $5000 grant, not a loan, for further developments on their creation. So what's the catch? To be considered into the program, your gadget must have more than ...

The iPhone isn't even out yet and there are scheduled conferences, iPhone specific applications and now an iPhone developer's platform. A company called Morfik has created a platform that will give developers the ability to build applications on Apple's new iPhone. This new platform is said to be the first of its kind, and usually the first ones to market hit it big with consumers. Morfik has said ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/9_ways_ColdFusion_8_will_rule_web_development'; Ben Forta and Adobe are getting into full swing with ColdFusion 8 Scorpio Pre-Release tour. Last night Ben gave us in Seattle a taste of things to come. Here is why it will kick the tar balls out of everything else on the market. Built in AJAX widgets. Create AJAX windows, auto complete forms, calendar ...

Seems like someone has some kind of beef with web designers, or a passion to see more bad design online, but at least it seems like a cool service. Zude is a new online service that lets people quickly and easily design their own websites. Through the Web 2.0 technology that Zude employs, people will be able to drag and drop content creating enhancements for the MySpace sites of the internet. ...

Boing Boing posted a link to an amusing little video called Supermarket 2.0. The acting's nothing too special, and I can't help but wonder how this supermarket stays open with just 3 customers. But the concept is pure geek comedy gold. The store is completely web 2.0 compliant. glumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0 There are tags on all the products (H20, transparent, etc for water), RSS feeds for ...

Get a little more organized with this updated Notebook release from Google. The organizational tool looks a little nicer now, care of some AJAXy goodness from the team at Google. They have updated and transformed the once boring Google Notebook, into something extremely useful. Notebook now uses a nice blend of AJAX and common Gmail features to store and share notes. Users can create a list of ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_11_Yahoo_Tips_and_tricks'; Yahoo's new version of web mail is, without a doubt, one of the coolest and most fluid Ajax applications we've seen to date. For the average user it offers every major feature that you can find in Outlook or Thunderbird, and it does it with style. But that isn't all, the Yahoo team also took the time to layer the app with ...

Host to many, many a website, DreamHost decided it was time to bring some new hotness to their web admin control panel. Gone are the dark blue roll-out headers in favor of a much lighter AJAX + full CSS design, with subtle gradients and even a pseudo-tag area under the Home > Overview section (we only rank it as 'pseudo' due to its tag-like appearance, but rightful lack of actual tagging ...

Start pages are great to gather the information you check out frequently, and take a quick look at them in one convenient location. There are many Ajax start pages on the market including Netvibes, Google Personalized home page, Yourminis, and Pageflakes that all seem to do the job. So what makes Schmedley different? Nothing really. Its pretty, ajaxy, and just another player in this ever ...

Each day sees more and more Ajax tools, tricks, demos, and libraries come online. MiniAjax.com is a place that collects, on a very fluid and easy to browse page, all of the latest and greatest Ajax scripts that you can download and implement on your website. There is a lot of good stuff to explore here such as: GreyBox - a simple window you can use to launch another webpage within your ...