Wonderful AJAX Office Tools
Ajax 13, a very young startup from San Diego, has developed an impressive collection of very, very sweet AJAX Office applications:
There are a write app as well as a spreadsheet tool which, if they want it to be successful, will surely have to try hard competing with Google’s recently “hyped” Docs & Spreadsheets.
However in addition to that they also have a presentation tool (ajaxPresents) that — judging from my first impression — looks and feels pretty much like the big standalone applications, Powerpoint and OpenOffice. It can also export and import these two file formats, which makes it a brilliant tool to edit presentation slides on a computer where you happen not to have an office suite installed.
But there are even two more on the list: A drawing tool called ajaxSketch (conveniently exportable to SVG) and an online MP3 player called ajaxTunes (if I see it right, it’s Flash, not AJAX, but ah well).
All in all this seems to be a very interesting company to keep an eye on; and I would not be surprised if they made it on the list of Google acquisitions some time soon — just like Upstartle, the company which produced the tool Writely, now part of the aforementioned Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
dont get your hopes up, it isnt the kind of web application that fits google: it’s xul based, it doesnt make any sense to run it online since it depends on a gecko engine.
Very interesting; I didn’t even notice that. Most likely because I am using Firefox. But I think you are right: Gecko-only is not what Google wants to buy, it seems like.
However, I like their software anyway!
PS: Since I am not a Google stock owner or similar, there are no “hopes” involved here
In fact there are still some competitors in the market competing with Google in online office, EditGrid is one of them which is full of innoviation as well~