Archive for the 'Ajax' Category

April 1st launch of Google Calendar

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

There is speculation of a April 1st launch of Google Calendar aka CL2.
There are a couple things that are certain, it will be based on Ajax and it will be integrated with Gmail. What will be crucial is possibility to sync with cell phones and pda’s. That will be tricky as you can not do […]

Google Gmail Chat client

Monday, February 20th, 2006

A while back I wrote that Google should stick to web based apps. A step in the right direction is the Gmail-based chat client. It does not require any software, but is maybe too basic.
The hottest thing right now are Ajax desktops. The plan is that create a personal dynamic home page. It sounds pretty […]

Google should stick to web only apps

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Google has innovated the computer world more than any company in recent years. It has been through simple web application.
They have a few attempts at making non-web applications such as Google Earth and Google Talk. Those applications have not been as successful as the web applications such as Google Maps/Local and Google Mail.
Google just […]

Improvements to eBay Google Mashup

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I just made some improvements to the eBay Google Mashup. When changing the country in the form it will reset categories and postal codes. This is done to prevent the eBay API from complaining about unvalid postal codes and categories.
I have also made hyperlinks for the cities. The links lead to local searches around […]

Amazon Ajax Categories interface

Friday, December 9th, 2005

I just completed my Amazon Ajax Categories interface. It is almost identical to my eBay Categories Ajax interface. I have a cache of 3923 categories. I am not sure all are there, since the structure is a bit weird.

Browse Amazon nodes with Ajax

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

I have started working on the Amazon API. My plan is to make it possible to compare prices with eBay with a simple click. The first step is to make a little Ajax-based browser for the Amazon categories.
The Amazon API is very straight forward BUT, the categories or browsenodes as they call them are a […]

Improved Ajax categories

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

I’ve just uploaded a new version of the Ajax eBay categories on all the different search pages: Google Maps, Virtual earth and HTML.
The new version will find all parent categories and display them when you click on a category in the category column.

eBay search without maps

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I added a regular eBay search on the site today. One unique thing is that it displays the location in a better way than eBay does, I do a reverse look up of the zip code. It is easy to switch back and forth between Google Maps Search and regular search. The regular search has […]