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July 14, 2006
JamJar: Adobe's First 'Web 2.0' Application
Yesterday afternoon, Adobe released a preview of JamJar on labs.adobe.com, which is "a demonstration application built with
Flex 2 that provides a private and persistent canvas for small groups
to easily exchange digital content." I think the best way to think of it is that its similar to an Flash version of MySpace.
I'm a huge fan of JamJar, I think its really cool and one of the best client applications, even in its current test form, that Adobe has released in the past few years. Others aren't so happy with it.
Here are some reasons why JamJar is Adobe's first Web 2.0 application:
- Its the first Adobe application to serve up Google ads from Adsense as the only revenue stream (currently).
- Its the first Adobe application that really needed an Invite a friend link in the menu bar.
- Its one of the first applications from Adobe that doesn't install on your hard drive. Yes, the company that brought you Creative Suite and its over 1 GB install, has created a program that doesn't install anything on your machine.
- It integrates my photos from Flickr.
- Its better than any other social networking web creation space, because changes happen in real time... No more reloading of pages to see what text would look like as Times New Roman rather than Arial... Change it and you see it immediately.
- Real time collaboration / file sharing! If two people are in the same JamJar space at the same time, changes to the space are reflected on both people's view, in real time. A long way to say that we can have a real time discussion in JamJar, or when you add a file to JamJar, and I'm on your space, I see it immediately and can download it right away.
- Control who can do what to your space... When you invite friends to your space, you can make them authors (meaning they can read or write to your space) or just visitors (read only).
Here are some reasons why its not a true Web 2.0 application:
- No RSS feed for new items.
- No way to create new JamJar components.
- No APIs to add items to your space from outside JamJar.
I'm looking forward to more JamJar releases, and I urge you to test it out if you can. Currently the JamJar server appears to be down.
Apologies for the click-bait in the title. I'm not a big fan of the term 'Web 2.0'.
technorati tags:jamjar, web20, flex, myspace, socialnetworking, adobe, realtime
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The demo on the labs page does not load up.
[It should be up and running again now. - Mike]
I must have hit it right after it went live, about 11 pm eastern, so I had a chance to create a little space and play around.
Maybe I've just been looking at Flash apps too much, but I wasn't confused at all about what to do. I had very minor peeves, one of which was the adbar, but I realize a customer implemented version wouldnt have to feature that.
Over all very very cool and I think a good public example of what Flex Data Services can do.
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