05.31.06

Online apps – the future?

Posted in OpenSource, future paradigms at 1:25 pm by sbetts




Ajax – swf – php – what’s the future of applications?  Who has a nifty new online application that you would like to share?  Something with educational possibilities that is..

I have a link of open-source / freeware on my website, but am looking for those killer online items.

The newest that I am playing with is http://www.gliffy.com

Gliffy – Draw and Share diagrams on the web.

So, what is your present favorite?


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8 Comments

  1.    Sharon said,

    May 31, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    Periodic Table of the Elements: http://code.jalenack.com/periodic/

    Realtime html editor – nice for teaching basic html
    http://www.squarefree.com/htmledit/

    Neat Ajax enabled icon search: http://www.challenger.se/?icondb

  2.    Sharon said,

    May 31, 2006 at 1:56 pm

    http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/index.html
    real time water flow

    weight on other worlds:
    http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

  3.    Michael Richards said,

    May 31, 2006 at 2:16 pm

    Sharon,

    Have you checked out the online version of ThinkFree? You also have iRows (Excel), Writely (Word), Thumbstacks (Powerpoint). Soon hard drives will be data driven not application driven.

  4.    Sharon said,

    May 31, 2006 at 2:45 pm

    Here are the URLs for Mike’s suggestions:
    ThinkFree: http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo
    iRows: http://www.irows.com/
    Writely: http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm

    Thumbstacks: http://www.thumbstacks.com/

    Thanks, Mike

  5.    Sharon said,

    June 1, 2006 at 8:25 am

    Thanks Dave Trask – why would you ever buy word?
    AjaxWrite – http://www.ajaxlaunch.com/ajaxwrite/

    Thanks Jim Burke – Online Collaborative WhiteBoard
    http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage

    http://writeboard.com/

    His collection of online interactive math applets:
    http://region6.mainelearns.org/onlineinteractivemath.html

  6.    Sharon said,

    June 1, 2006 at 9:51 am

    Here is one that came across my desk – a simple Create a Graph:
    http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/index.asp

  7.    Sharon said,

    June 6, 2006 at 3:16 pm

    A full sweet from Zoho – this came across my desktop when I was examining the new Google Spreadsheet:
    http://www.zoho.com/

  8.    sbetts said,

    June 9, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    http://vyew.com/content/

    Video Conferencing for free!!!!!!!!!