Computing/Web2.0

Intro

• Web 2.0 by Paul Graham: "Web 2.0 means using the web the way it's meant to be used. The "trends" we're seeing now are simply the inherent nature of the web emerging from under the broken models that got imposed on it during the Bubble."
• What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly
• Rich Internet applications are Web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications
• Go2Web20 - the complete Web 2.0 directory
• Web 2.0 Workgroup is a network of premium weblogs that write content about the new generation of the Web
• Web 2.0 category on Wikipedia
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

AJAX

• AJAX category on Wikipedia
• Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
• haXe - web oriented universal language
• Ajax news
• Two tools bring Ajax to Eclipse's Ajax Toolkit Framework: Dojo and Zimbra
• XMLHTTP is a set of APIs that can be used by JavaScript and other web browser scripting languages to transfer XML to and from a web server using HTTP.
• Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
• AJAX-Considered-Harmful
• Fixing AJAX
• Ajax Patterns
• AHAH: Asychronous HTML and HTTP
• AJAX Whiteboard - free minibook
• javapassion.com - free online tutorials

Specifications

• The XMLHttpRequest object: W3C Working Draft
• Web Applications 1.0 This specification introduces features to HTML and the DOM that ease the authoring of Web-based applications. Additions include the context menus, a direct-mode graphics canvas, inline popup windows, server-sent events, and more.

Toolkits

• Ajax framework - Wikipedia page with a list of AJAX frameworks
• Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications easy. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
• AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript
• COWS Ajax makes cross-site, asynchronous, tri-directional communication (the user, your site, the application host) a no-brainer
• Yahoo! UI 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.
• SAJAX: Simple Ajax Toolkit
• Dojo toolkit
• SACK: Simple AJAX Code Kit
• Bindows: desktop web applications framework
• Live Clipboard
• Unobtrusive Javascript
• Helma project - Javascript application framework
• Mochikit - a lightweight Javascript library
• Sarissa
  • Sarissa API reference
  • Sarissa to the Rescue
• script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries
• ZK - Simply Ajax is a framework enriching Web apps with little programming. With event-driven components and XUL/XHTML markup languages, developing is as simple as programming desktops and authoring HTML pages. Scripting support Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy
• Adobe® AIR™ (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Flex™, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop
• Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web
• Google Gears is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs

IDEs

• Aptana Studio

Applications

• reddit - what's new online
• infogami lets anyone build good-looking, easily-editable web sites
• Google Pages
• Swicki - search engine that learns from your community's search behavior
• Grazr API for quickly surveying RSS feeds[1]

Databases and forms

• Wufoo - making forms easy
• Lazybase - easy online databases
• Dabble DB

Terminal

• Anyterm
• AjaxTerm

Personalized home page

• Netvibes
• Protopage

Office

• Google Docs
• Central Desktop for use as a Project Mgmnt, blog or wiki platform
• Early AJAX Office Apps
• Office 2.0 applications
• gOffice
• Zoho
• ThinkFree
• JotSpot - transitioning to Google Siteshttp://sites.google.com/
• ajax13:
  • ajaxSketch is a web-based drawing tool that provides a familiar environment for diagramming, creating flow charts, free hand drawing and more
  • ajaxWrite - word processor
  • ajaxXLS - spreadsheet editor
  • ajaxPresents - presentation editor
  • ajaxTunes - music player

Word processors

• Buzzword
• Writely - part of Google Docs

Spreadsheets

• EditGrid
• Google Spreadsheets
• Pagos SpreadsheetWEB, spreadsheet components and spreadsheet services
• NumSum
• iRows
• WikiCalc by Dan Bricklin
• Jotspot spreadsheets

Presentations

SlideRocket

Image editors

Splashup

Collaboration

• Meebo: Web 2.0 IM client
• Writeboard - shareable, web-based text documents
• Thinkature - real-time collaboration for the web (Visio/Dia for the web)
• Ta-da Lists - shareable todo lists

Mashups

• ProgrammableWeb - directory of mashups, APIs, tagging, etc
• Frappr - create your own custom map
• gotAPI - AJAX-based documentation resource for HTML, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Ruby, etc.
• iSpecies is a test of idea of a web page for each species, the data displayed are generated "on the fly" by querying other data sources
• HousingMaps: Google Maps + Craigslist

Social bookmarking

• memepool.com
• del.icio.us
• Digg labs track real-time activity specific to the Digg audience
• Newzbubble tracks real-time news as they pertain to World, Tech, US, UK, South Africa events (as of 5/2/07)
• StumbleUpon

Miscellaneous

• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data interchange format that can be trivially parsed by JavaScript, with JavaScript's built in eval() procedure.
  • JSON Wikipedia article
  • Introducing JSON
  • Web services + JSON
• YAML is a data serialization and lightweight markup language that takes concepts from languages such as XML, C, Python, and Perl.
• XML Data Islands @ AjaxPatterns
• Wiki Matrix to compare all available wiki CMS
• Sun JavaFX comprises a comprehensive set of runtime environments, widgets, development tools, and scripting environments; based on JavaFX script - a Javascript alternative
• Web 2.0-style buttons