[OPLINTECH] MUST SEE! AjaxWrite and AjaxSketch

[Mann, James H.]

Here's a URL to his message from this morning discussing initial
problems with AjaxWrite and the release of AjaxSketch

 

http://www.michaelrobertson.com/

 

Just a personal note, their offices are a couple miles from my mother's
home in San Diego and last year I literally knocked on his door and was
able to talk with him for about half an hour. He is an amazing person
with a real vision to put Linux on the desktop in a way normal humans
can understand.

 

Jim Mann

Technology Coordinator

Greene County Public Library

Xenia Ohio 45385

(937) 376-2996 x210

mailto: jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of JKENZIG
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:29 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] MUST SEE! AjaxWrite and AjaxSketch

 

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. 

 

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
http://www.ajaxlaunch.com

 

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. 

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!

 

See http://www.ajaxwrite.com 

 

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!

 

See http://www.ajaxsketch.com and give it a try!

 

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!

 

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:


http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=8

 

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!

 

Jim Kenzig 
Network Manager 
Cuyahoga County Public Library 

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