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eBay gets a facelift with San Dimas

Written as an Apollo deskop application; The program allows eBay users to watch multiple items on eBay easily, and work with that data by exporting stats to their desktop as an excel spreadsheet. When users are outbid on a particular item users are notified by a pop-up window, and users can do things like create item listings while offline, and take photos for their listings with their webcam that are automatically added to their listing.
The project was demoed at DEMO 07 in January. You can check out a video of San Dimas in action at that conference here.
[Via TechCrunch]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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Ankher said 6:15PM on 4-18-2007
Can you say FINALLY!?!
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Sean said 6:21PM on 4-18-2007
So, how is this web 2.0 when it's a thick client app?
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Sven Schoene said 7:43PM on 4-18-2007
Wow, just wow! This is exactly what I'm looking for for a future project I want to program. This truly is the future of the web.
@Sean:
Well, this is more like Web 3.0, I guess. ;)
Sven,
http://www.svenschoene.de
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