Web UI September 25, 2005
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , trackbackThe capabilities of browser based applications have exploded in recent years. (This is especially important for ZENworks - as we move the management console to the new ZENworks Control Center.)
There is a breaking set of new ‘Web 2.0′ applications that use AJAX to deliver a really rich UI; Google Maps is probably the most well known; but I also love these:
I remember some of the contortions that had to turned just a few years ago to get anything even looking like this in a browser.
I saw some of the Hula calendar work when I was last in Cambridge - it all looked very slick.
TechCrunch is a great resource for tracking some of these new concepts.
I predict that these UIs will become prevalent on the most sticky sites; I also hope that a lot of the ‘cool’ and ’sexy’ comes across into the more mundane enterprise IT world.
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Ooh - netvibes is also pretty hot.
[...] Windows Live is interesting; I’m still not seeing the ‘Woo!’ factor here; much of this has been done before. I blogged on some of the cutting edge ‘Web 2.0‘ pieces earlier. Protopage is still one of my favourite neu-portals - it’s clean and fresh. [...]