Rollyo is an amazing search utility which offers searches direct from the sources they need. Create a Search roll, with upto 25 URL’s and search a word you want to search. Tools include Firefox search plugin, Rollyo Searchbox on your websites and mailing of created search rolls. The webmasters do like Firefox a lot ,…
Category Archives: Web 2.0
Google Acquires Writely
Google acquires Popular Ajax Web Word Processor Writely. Google today announced the acquisition of writely. Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I’m happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google. Even though Writely is still in Beta,…
Flagr : Share from anywhere in the world
Flagr is a small web startup operating out of San Francisco, Flagr is built on open source softwares like Ruby on Rails, VIM, Lighttpd and uses Google Maps API to track places. Getting “orders to flag” from mobiles is interesting, Start a new Text or Picture Message and address it to: x@flagr.com In the message…
Professional Ajax : Review
Ajax, as you all know is something that is used in most of the new and exciting application released on the web nowdays, Web 2.0 to be precise. Professional Ajax, lights up most the area needed for a web developer to get started with AJAX. The book does a good job academically of showing how…
Windows Live Local – Virtual Earth Preview Technology
Windows Live Local : A simple superb creation from Microsoft. It is based on the Microsoft Map ,but a bit more interesting. The service will initially target San Francisco and Seattle only due to the massive number of images needed to support make it work . It offers fabulous views , a Race car ,…
How vSocial Went from 0 to 71 Million Page Views in (about) 120 Days
Ajax Blog had a chance recently to sit down with the breakout team of vSocial.com. We wanted to pick the brains of the vSocial founding team and learn about: starting a new social networking site, building a large-scale, high-bandwidth web app, developing with Ajax, building traffic/buzz, life hacks, and more. The numbers speak for themselves:…
Google Pages: Creating Webpages
Long time rumoured , Google Pages is unofficially out . Rich in AJAX and clean user interface. Have some time to spare ? You just need a Google account you can enjoy this feature . Google Pages, allows users to create webpages on browser using Ajaxed WYSIWYG editor. The use of limited yet usefull tools…
JotForm : Online form builder
JotForm was released yesterday.Bult on JavaScript libraries Prototype and Script.aculo.us, Jotform is an online WYSIWYG form builder, works on Ajax, Instant Edit and JavaScript. As per Aytekin Tank, It would be the first real completely web based WYSIWYG form builder. I really like the interesting idea behind this. Drag-Drop Form fields and a very neat…
Gmail Chat : Coming Up
I Was browsing through my mails and noticed this, Google is starting up Gmail Chat, it might give a tough time for web 2.0 company’s like meebo, upcoming emessenger etc. Google Chat Your Google Talk chat history can be automatically saved right here in your Gmail account.Now chat with your friends from directly within Gmail,…
Spongecell – Ajax Calender
Spongecell calendar the easiest online planning tool for friends to share 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…