Spongecell - Ajax Calender

Built on the Ruby on Rails platform, SpongeCell is a very usefull Ajax calendar. According to the press release, The new Spongecell online calendar (Innovation Partners’ patent pending) features revolutionary ease of use for social networks - individual and groups - to plan an online calendar.Spongecell has set out to make calendars easy to use. It’s simple to create a new appointment, change the time of an appointment, invite your friends or get a reminder on your cell phone.

Features & Notes :

• See your calendar from your cell phone! Try sending a text message to sponge@spongecell.com that just says “Today” or “Tomorrow”.
• Make new appointments with simple phrases. Now you don’t have to hunt your way to the right day, pick the time from a drop down and go through screen after screen just to create a new appointment. Just type “S” and enter your appointment or send it to sponge@spongecell.com from your email client or as a text-email from your phone.
• Click and Drag to create a new appointment. When you want to make a new appointment, just click and drag on the calendar - the new window that pops up will have the correct time automatically filled out. You can also move existing appointments by clicking and dragging.
• Add Friends. Click the Add Friends link below the Calendars window. You and your friends will be sharing events in no time. (you can also stalk your ex.)
• Navigate with your keyboard. Use T to jump to today, and use the arrow keys to navigate.
• Publish your calendar. You can publish your calendar via iCalendar, RSS or the web. Click Publish at the bottom of your calendar for more information.

They are having an open launch party on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 in San Francisco.

LinkFeed - Another AJAXed HomePage !

LinkedFeed is an automated and customizable information social network. The more you use it, the most accurate news it brings to you and people sharing your interests.

Yet another ajax desktop like google IG, netvibes or pageflakes. The one feature different enough that I could find was that it allows a colouring option for the content, it might be a small feature but as I said thats the only thing I could find to blog here, perhaps they should start a development blog. Maybe its targeted for French users only ^_^ , a google search result couldn’t draw much news either.
Still No.1 in my ajax desktop list is Netvibes.

Ajax Polling - DPolls

DPolls is an awsome polling site, you can create as many polls as you want by creating a free account.

This ajax driven polling system is very easy to use and sure to get popular.

dPolls.com is website dedicated to providing the best online polling experience avaiable. Make your opinion heared by voting to any poll you’d like.
Let other people know what you think, and find out if people think the same as you.
Want to get an opinion about an issue that’s importent to you? Create your own poll and start getting other people opinions. You can create a poll in just about any subject you can think of.

xajax 0.2 is Here

xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page.

xajax’s unique XML response / javascript message-pump system does the work for you, automatically handling the data returned from your functions and updating your content or state according to the instructions you return from your PHP functions. Because xajax does the work, you don’t have to write javascript callback handler functions and more..