Seen Creative has released a new free product billQ:
The easiest way to keep track of your bills. Our web application helps you to schedule and manage bills.
The application feels 37 Signals-esque in its simplicity and nice use of Ajax (without overuse).
Ever feel like you want to play a good, forever-lasting game of Risk but just don't have a board (or are somewhere where you couldn't play it that way if you wanted?) Well, Bryan Brunton wrote in to tell us about a game inspired by this classic war game that's fully Ajax enabled - Grand Strategy.
Grand Strategy is a game inspired by the board game Risk. It was implemented using the DWR and DOJO libraries. Java Server Faces is used for session management and localization, but other than that, Grand Strategy is a pure Ajax application.
Simply, head over and register an account to get started. A registration email will be sent and, once you confirm your account, you can get right into the game. There are (usually) several different games to join and different game types to choose from as well as messaging abilities and configurable game creation. The system even allows you to keep track of completed games to map out your progress.
The JFK Assassination Timeline is a nice example of a dragable clickable pure JS UI.
The demo shows off SIMILE:
SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores. We seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, and metadata held in such stores.
eefoof is a new project that offers a user-submitted content site similar to YouTube, Google Video, AlbinoBlackSheep, etc, except we share ad revenue with content submitters. Users earn a portion of the site's ad revenue based on how much traffic their submission(s) receives.
Ajax comes into play heavily for the media galleries on the site. The Ajax interface is designed to minimize page reloads and provide a pleasant experience to the user.
Ajax is also used extensively during content submission. When a user is uploading a file they are shown a progress indicator with bytes received / speed. One of the neat features is that when uploading an image, the user sees the image being drawn in the webpage as the server is receiving the data, live.
Developer Pete Nixey created this site as a proof-of-concept. Eventsites is a full-fledged application that uses no server logic and stores no data of it’s own. We’ve all seen the Google map mashups, but this really takes things to the next level and shows the power of what can be created in today’s Web 2.0 environment.
This is a 1 page AJAX application that merely acts as a “client to other webservices”.
Visit Pete’s blog to find out how this was created.
MODx is a content management system with AJAX goodness (or Web 2.0 as they say). The code is neat and gives a true CMS feel. Though I liked the admin Interface more, the panel offers a wide range of options , Tools, extra plugins , stats checking etc. like a true CMS .
I should say it does a lot more than other AJAX based scripts like AJAXpress and AJAX Portal . But still it needs a lot more to get into high level category of scripts like Joomla and WordPress.
After launch of AJAXwrite Ajaxsketch and eyespot AJAXlaunch is all set for two new applications AJAXtunes and AjaxXLS .
ajaxTunes is a web-based media player that lets you play, pause, forward and rewind high-quality streaming music straight from the Internet on any computer. Try ajaxTunes immediately, it has been preloaded with a demo account containing more than 25 songs encoded at 192kbps from different albums and a great mix of playlists from select artists. Or, create your own music locker and choose from over 40,000 songs to create your personal playlists. ajaxTunes is a fully interactive application that will allow you to connect to hours of music, FREE.
ajaxXLS 0.5 viewer is a web-based viewer application with a look and feel similar to Microsoft Excel. With one click you can easily open any .xls file in just a few seconds. The interactivity and responsiveness provided by AJAX programming allows you to enjoy the power and utility of a spreadsheet without the cost of conventional software.