Web 2.0 Trends

A comprehensive list of Web 2.0 Sites, Trends, Companies, Services and more

Friday, June 22, 2007

Microsoft Silverlight

If you havn't yet heard about Silverlight,

"Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows."

Here is more info - http://silverlight.net/

You can watch more details and tutorials here

http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideos.aspx#video188

Labels: Silverlight

posted by Unknown # Friday, June 22, 2007 1 Comments

Friday, March 23, 2007

Yahoo GUI Library For Ajax Development

Yahoo GUI library has a rich set of controls for web development.

"The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses."

See the page http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

You may download the Yahoo UI library from http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/download/

For example, see the Menu control in Yahoo UI library - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/menu/index.html

Using this menu object model, the menu library allows users to implement cool menus in their web pages

Labels: Web 2.0 Reviews

posted by Unknown # Friday, March 23, 2007 1 Comments

Monday, March 19, 2007

Enhancing your Blog With Google Ajax API Wizards

Google Ajax API Wizards provide a unique way to add enhanced functionality to your blog and websites.

Some Ajax API Wizards are

Map Search Wizard which help you to create Javascript you can put in your blog/website for searching maps
Video bar wizard for embedding a video in your webpage
Blog Bar Wizard for showing posts from the blog sphere
Video Search Wizard - Let the user search videos with out leaving your website.

See http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/wizards.html

Labels: Web 2.0 Reviews

posted by Unknown # Monday, March 19, 2007 1 Comments

Snap Search Engine - Search The Web 2.0 Way

Snap is a very innovate search engine, with a cool Ajax interface. The major features of Snap include

Suggestion of keywords as you type
Preview of websites when you point to a search result
Extensive, easy to use, Image search

Here you see the snap website, displaying result of search 'Web 2.0' - and for each link, it will also display the preview or 'snap' of the home page.