Joyent Slingshot is another competitor fighting Adobe Apollo on the on/offline webapp-market. Slingshot promises to deploy Ruby-on-Rails apps & data synchronisation to Windows & Mac-desktops by april 2007. considering Rails’ popularity among web2.0-folks, this might be worth checking out (although it’s not really clear under which kind of license Singshot will operate).
Highrise, 37signals’ eagerly anticipated CRM-tool, has been released today. looks like another great app – especially – for virtual companies. just take the tour to see a why 37signals is where they’re today – doesn’t this just make you wanna sign-up?
an alpha-version of Adobe Apollo (you know, the framework enabling flash-apps for the offline-world) has [...]
sooner than expected, Linden Labs yesterday announced integration of voice-messaging into Second Life for Q2/2007, with a beta-run starting as early as next week. while residents have been using Skype and other popular teamspeak-applications since ages, the native SL-feature will go further by offering 3D-enabled, spatial audio. if done properly, this will increase the [...]
according to Read/WriteWeb, Firefox 3 will offer support for running web-applications offline. though it’s not yet clear on which level this might happen, this is major news for providers of service-based web-software. the biggest advantage of online-apps – using them on any device with net-access with no need to sync data – is at [...]