Posts Tagged with ‘ajax’

Apparently, Viewzi had its private beta launch when I was in San Francisco for Web 2.0 Expo, because how I missed it, I have no idea. I've never been a big fan of visual search, but I'm always willing to give it a try, going in with the expectation that I'll be doing a lot of eye-rolling. Viewzi was a pleasant surprise.
Viewzi is a new way of looking at visual search: it realizes that not all searches are the same. [...]

I have a constant flow of apps in my inbox and in Firefox tabs, waiting to see if they are worth a review. Most of the time, when an app is unusable or has major bugs, I just delete it and move on. But I had two apps in a row last week that this happened with, and I realized it's a symptom of a larger problem with many Web 2.0 start-ups.
The two apps I tried using were SyncWizard and [...]

The more that I've been following the development of Web operating systems, the more I've come to realize that the concept shouldn't really be that difficult. For a Web OS to be successful, there are only a few simple things it really needs to have. It needs to have a slick and attractive interface, especially for those of us spoiled by Mac OS X. It needs to be able to store all types of files. It needs to have a [...]

Launching today at DEMO 2008, Iterasi promises to revolutionize social bookmarking for the Web 2.0 world. While sites like del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia allow you to share bookmarks, one of the problems with sharing static URL links is that much of the content of AJAX applications is absent when you return to the site.
Iterasi will launch as a private beta within 30 days with a plug-in for IE 7 and Firefox for Windows, with a Mac version following soon after. I [...]

MoFuse, short for mobile fusion is a new kid on the block when it comes to RSS feeds on your mobile phone. MoFuse founded in July 2007 released its first private beta in the late part of September 2007.
The idea behind MoFuse is to allow, as it so boldly states, “content publishers to create RSS driven mobile sites and gives our users the ability to control almost every aspect of the design using some of our AJAX features”, and [...]

While we at Profy try to keep things as clean and all-members-of-the-family-friendly as possible in our coverage and analysis, we do come across topics on occasion that we have trouble vetting for vulgarities. Especially when a product or creation in and of itself carries with it some non-child-compatible language. So just as a warning, our foul-language firewall will be put into temporary retirement for this piece.
Web 2.0, as you all know quite well already, is a world of awesome. AJAX, [...]

A fantastic new communications interface called Pronto! just emerged from the secret vault of CommuniGate. Pronto! is being unveiled today in Chicago at Adobe Max - the premier experience for Adobe users worldwide. Pronto is a RIA net communications dashboard that quite honestly blew me away. A good friend (Brian Blank of Future-Works) sent us a sneak peek at this refreshing tool that combines email, calendaring, IM, media player and even web/blog editing software in a tight package. Before you [...]

Multiplayer gaming on the Internet – or social gaming, if we’re talkin’ two-oh lingo – is nothing new. It’s been done for, well, many, many years. I believe Yahoo! was the first portal of any significant stature to debut a venue for just such entertainments, way back in the days when dial-up still ruled the tubes.
So when Profy got a message recently from the makers of a social gaming network, asking us to test what they had developed, I [...]

For a good period of time, there was noticeable discontent over the increasing use of the term ‘Web 2.0’ by bloggers, and, eventually, full-fledged journalists. To a sizable portion of Web users, the label had no real meaning whatsoever. They thought it was simply a name conjured for use as a marketing tool. A new spin devoid of meaning. It aggravated. It caused a ruckus on some occasions. And then, almost at once, everyone began to accept it en masse.
Now, [...]