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Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process.GWT supports a variety of built-in Widgets that are useful for AJAX applications, including hierachical trees, tab bars, menu bars, and modal dialog boxes. GWT also has built-in support for remote procedure calls and other more sophisticated web application features.
They released the GWT 1.2 and now used to develop and debug with GWT on Mac OS X in addition to Linux and Windows.

more can be learned in:http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

WAML is an approach of combining existed AJAX frameworks under single Application Markup Language. WAML - Web Application Markup Language. WAML allows you to define your web application appearance and functionality by using simple XML like syntax mixed with HTML. The idea behind WAML is to simplify application functionality definition and provide flexible access to UI objects, data and communication services. WAML functionality build on top of existed AJAX frameworks available for public use. After all WAML is absolutely FREE.

http://www.endless.com/ is a new site created by Amazon “in response to customers’ desires to shop a destination dedicated to shoes and handbags”.

They have created a very rich experience that is highly dynamic including:
Ajax pagination
Image zooming to get closer
Dynamically changing other choices as you mouse over an element
Instant feedback to let you know if you have to select more items to get work done
They didn’t go over the top, and instead kept the site very clean and simple.

when Ajax was still just a gleam in most developer's eyes and Web 2.0 hadn't quite kicked into full swing, Google was there at the front, already integrating it into their applications and teaching the world how a little Javascript could make the user experience that much better. Times have changed, though, and other sites have grown up around Google with their own functionality and abilities. Several even do some of the same things Google's web applications do (calendars, email, word processors), but are they better?

Iam going through the microsoft page and found this updated news..

Microsoft Corp. announced three new Windows Live for mobile services that provide search and communications capabilities to help people access their world of relationships, information and interests from their mobile device. Now available in the United States and the United Kingdom, Live Search for Windows Mobile and Live Search for Java provide customers with advanced local search and mapping capabilities on their mobile device. In conjunction with the availability of Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft also introduced Windows Live for Windows Mobile a rich set of Windows Live services including e-mail, instant messaging and search uniquely designed to work with Windows Mobile powered devices.

read more at:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/feb07/02-11WindowsLiveMobilePR.mspx

I have viewed your project and it looks good!

strengths: Looks nice, showing all friends on map at a time.

weakness: again login button appeared after login.
no logout button.
no password recovery option.(my opinion)

http://learningremix.net/w2007integ/learningremix/tags/mapyourbuddies

It looks good and you people did great job.

strengths: great idea of using ajax api,search within ypsilanti which is your scope of project.
weakness: it will be better if you provide link to the school in the shadow box.
when we click on directions link it shows some default direction.I hope you can fix it.

http://learningremix.net/w2007integ/learningremix/tags/isasitemashup

Hi guys!
you did some interesting and meaningful work here.

strengths: the site looks good.
weakness: No complete address of the location and their corresponding website.

I hope you guys can do much more better for next iteration

http://learningremix.net/w2007integ/lbukovac/2007/02/iteration1.shtml

I looked at your project and its awesome.

strengths: Great caffeine picture, nice bachground, all shops at one site.
weakness: No link to the shops and directions.

http://people.emich.edu/dphipps1/www2/index2.html

In my view "MyFavoritePlaces" project is good one.

Strengths : searches every caterogy like pizza,coffee,book stores,gas stations etc.
provides all the addresses on a separate panel.

weakness: when we open the site it looks static page as it shows "pizza" in the search option.
when we click on any location,the pointer is not showing the current location.

http://people.emich.edu/jhayton/is449/phase1/foodhunter.html

In my view "MyFavoritePlaces" project is good one.

Strengths : searches every caterogy like pizza,coffee,book stores,gas stations etc.
provides all the addresses on a separate panel.

weakness: when we open the site it looks static page as it shows "pizza" in the search option.
when we click on any location,the pointer is not showing the current location.

http://people.emich.edu/jhayton/is449/phase1/foodhunter.html

wow! the site looks really nice and people you have did amazing work in your project.

strengths: Really good looking,placed all the teams on the sidebar.
weakness: too many links within the tabs .

http://people.emich.edu/mchiang4/is449/project/window.html

I looked at your project and it looks nice.

strengths: Helps for graduating students.
weakness: placed only five job position links
Not much information about the job
jobs are not catergorized.

hope you people will do some amazing work.

http://people.emich.edu/mpinter/is449/project/iteration1/

I found one article on web which discuss about Web 2.0 Technology Development Kit launched by Intel,.This article explains about TDK and how it is useful for the developers.

Intel Web 2.0 TDK, which provides royalty-free Javascript API, binary and source codes to allow developer to create web applications by taking advantage of the mobile features on notebooks and UMPCs.It is used to build Web 2.0 applications that respond gracefully to platform state changes such as power source changes, battery power levels and WiFi signal strength variations.

Find more about this in http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1026.htm

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Comeeko is a new Ajax application which allows you to build comic strips out of your own photos (or anything that you upload) and can place bubbles for comments .The tool itself is a very simple ajax driven application.

So hurrry up and upload your photos with comments.

For details:www.comeeko.com

I was going through this article which explains how DOM Events allow event-driven programming languages to register various event handlers/listeners on the element nodes inside a DOM tree, e.g. HTML, XHTML, XUL and SVG documents. DOM is an acronym for the Document Object Model.

I hope this article maybe helpful to you guys!