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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>I wanted to pass this exciting information along to you
all about two new web applications which I predict will be huge benefit for
any library that is running Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or higher. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>Michael Robertson of MP3.com and LindowsOS, er Linspire
OS, fame is spearheading a project to provide FREE web applications via the
web technology you may of heard of called AJAX. You can read about it
and sign up to be notified about new applications at <A
href="http://www.ajaxlaunch.com">http://www.ajaxlaunch.com</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>A few weeks ago they launched a product called
Ajaxwrite. For all intents and purporse it is a FREE browser based word
processor that is compatible with not only Microsoft Word documents but
wordperfect and Openoffice documents as well. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>Libraries now have the power to run a word processor on
every workstation they have connected to the internet as long as it has Mozilla
Firefox on it! There should be no excuse for any institution now not to
offer it's customers word processing!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>See <A
href="http://www.ajaxwrite.com">http://www.ajaxwrite.com</A>
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>Robertson is taking the ajaxlaunch initiative even
further by promising to launch additional applications in this method. They are
about to launch AjaxSketch a web browser based drawing
application!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>See <A
href="http://www.ajaxsketch.com">http://www.ajaxsketch.com</A> and give it a
try!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>I encourage the technical minded to sign up at
ajaxlaunch.com and keep an eye on what these people are doing, it is industy
changing forward thinking that demands attention!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>The AJAX technology itself is ramping up and many sites
are popping up that give you some exciting functionality. Here is a good blog
about some of the new AJAX desktop sites out there that let you create your own
workspace:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006><BR><A
href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=8">http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=8</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=620431002-31032006>Check out the pageflakes.com, netvibes.com or
protopage.com links in the above blog for some very interesting and useful
things you can do with AJAX!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Papyrus></FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV>
<DIV><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Papyrus>Jim Kenzig</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Papyrus>Network Manager</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Papyrus>Cuyahoga County Public
Library</FONT></SPAN></B> </DIV></BODY></HTML>