Two new AJAX flavored products launched today: Nusearch.com, a search engine with AJAX whizbang, and Zohoshow, the last piece in the Zoho Office Suite, a replacement for MS Office that includes Zohowriter.
As of this writing, it looks that Nusearch, with all it’s AJAX innovations, has succumbed to the first day onslaught. I’ll try and update this post when I manage to get through.
As for Zohoshow, it’s basic, allows you to import existing Powerpoint files. Don’t expect to do any charts or graphs or animations, though.
I’ve said before that presentations are just about the last thing for which I would want to depend on network connectivity. How many conference rooms have you been in that didn’t give you access to the outside world?
Update 1: Nusearch came back up. Yes, there’s some AJAX there, but in my opinion it’s rather annoying. The search engine will let you preview their cached version of a page just by mousing over it’s entry. It’s so twitchy, though, because the table rows are close together. Also, the preview is really no better than a frame or iframe. Snooze. From a pure search perspective, it doesn’t seem to do a very good job of sifting and ranking. The search results have a somewhat spammy feel to them.
I like dzone’s little popup screenshot much better.
