Links & Thoughts & Stuff

Zoom, zoom, zoom … und das ganz ohne Flash oder andere Plugins … und sooo smooth. Ich wüsste nur für mich persönlich gar keinen Anwendungsfall … schade.

Seadragon Ajax

Using HTML entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are validated. However, often finding the right entity code requires scanning through 250 rows of characters.

This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c.

Das ist doch mal ein ECHT nützliches Tool!

P.S.: DeepLinking scheint nicht zu funktionieren. Auch egal.

Page Strength: 2 / 10
Your website/page is a relative unknown. Search engines and humans are (for the time being) infrequent visitors. Consider the accessibility of the URL, the desirability of the content and your marketing efforts online; all can have great impact on your reach.

But see for yourself

Hi Folks,

during the last weeks and possibly even months I collected a lot of interresting stuff for you. As I currently don’t feel like writing tons of blog entries you’ll get the compact version today. And here we go (in no particular order):

• Beryl
  is a OpenGL powered window manager with lots of nice effects like burning menus and 3D features. See YouTube for a lot of action clips or see this video for a impressive first glance.
  
• FlickrSpy – The Flickr Peepshow!
  This is what I’d call a useful AJAX application. See a endless list of the latest images uploaded at Flickr. Nothing more, but nothing less.
• 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
  presented by smashing magazine. There are some real gems, but somehow I really like the default WordPress theme
• Shutdown Day
  Shutdown you computer a whole day!!! on March, 24th
• Command & Conquer 3
  is about to hit the streets and this might be the best time do download and play the 1.2 GB demo version!
• YUI-Hosting
  Yahoo is willing to host their your YUI files. This definitely looks like a win-win situation. You can save hundreds of bytes of traffic, and Yahoo will get every information about your users they could ever dream of But on the other hand, Google and it’s thousand tools ain’t better.
• MiniAjax.com
  A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts. There’s a site for everything out there!
  via pixelgraphix
• Seitwert
  A german page ranking site. Enter your german domain name and get ranked. This page’s Seitwert is 30.60 / 100, but Yahoo’s is also only 49.39 / 100. Judge for yourself

Well, I think that’s it for today, but be sure, there’s more to come!

Looking for a font? Searching the AJAX-Way?

Check out Neat fonts which not only gives you a really nice collection of fonts but also does this highly dynamic. If it wasn’t so slow, it really could be an application

Well, I’m not sure if it is a „new star“ but I stumbled on it in one of my last night sessions through the www. There are very nice approaches regarding online office suite integration, groupware and services ’round website business.

Since everything is for free you should give it a try and check out some of the modules.. Feedback is welcome here

Zoho – Affordable software for individuals, small & medium business

We live in times of web 2.0 and according to this fact AJAX is the hype term number one. Here is another implementation of presentation softwares for the web, judge for yourself:

Empressr is a Ajax/Flash-based web application that lets you create, share and store presentations online. It goes beyond current presentation applications by enabling you to incorporate rich media features, like streaming video and animation, to create and share the most dynamic presentations possible. The Flash UI of Empressr is quite impressive and looks good on eye.

Ein netter Artikel für Daniel, unseren Google-Maps Fetischisten:

Introducing Google’s Geocoding Service

Mit den aktuellen Tips und Tricks sowie Beispielen aus der Praxis.

A new search engine is coming up called Pixsy. The creators want to establish an equal alternative to the Google empire but with a slightly different approach: The ressource of Pixsy is not the world wide web but RSS feeds and online media sites. Additionally the website of Pixsy makes use of the AJAX technology to give the user a more application like experience.

Pixsy collects content from thousands of providers, resulting in millions of searchable photos and videos for you to search and browse. We started this company because traditional image search engines take a mathematical approach to searching and delivering content to users, with the focus entirely on relevancy. Additionally, the web is becoming more and more visual, with millions of images being created and added to thousands of sites each day. The Pixsy approach is “Freshness + Relevancy” and our goal is to collect, index, and organize this material so you can search for the latest content across multiple providers.

Pixsy: Visual Search

Only short time after ajaxWrite, the creators present the next full featured browser based application. This time vector drawing. Well, right now it’s not that full featured, but it’s already extremely impressive!

Read the (german) article at golem.de or check out ajaxSketch directly.