This week’s presentations cover a few Javascript frameworks, including EXTJS, JQuery, GWT (Google Web Toolkit), and YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library). All open-source, customizable libraries, these Javascript frameworks offer various tools and plug-ins for building richly interactive web apps.  Examples are animations, utilities, controls and widgets.
Be sure to check out our archived presentations that cover RIA technologies and runtimes, programming languages, and other frameworks.

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EXTJS

JQuery

GWT

YUI

Over the past few weeks, we’ve begun to post presentations to our blog to highlight some helpful developer tools and amazing web technologies. So far, the presentations have included RIA technologies and Runtimes (Air, Flex, Javascript, Silverlight, and Swing/Java), and programming languages: C#, PHP, and Python.  Be sure to check them out. With this weeks release, you can easily compare features of various Frameworks.

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ASP.NET

Django

Ruby on Rails

Symfony

Drupal

As we all know, technology is critical and unavoidable in any modern lifestyle- everything from ATM machines to cellphones to vending machines are changing rapidly. Here at Momentum, we know that not everyone has the time to sit down and research the latest web technologies so we’ve done it for you! We’ve put together a nice sized set of presentations that will give you the lowdown on what’s out there.  The first set includes a sampling of RIA technologies and Runtimes. We’ll be releasing them slowly over the next few weeks so be sure to check back.

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Air

Flex

Silverlight

Java_Swing

Javascript

We spent a greater part of a month working with the folks over at Synthasite to improve the workflow of their WYSIWYG web-builder application. It has seen some press over at Techcrunch today, as well as received some nice praise from Vinny, the CEO, over at his personal blog.

As you may or may not know, we’re generally known for the success we’ve had with our enterprise application design. Some of our more notable, successful customers are Ariba, SuccessFactors, and Rapt (recently purchased by Microsoft). What most people don’t know is that we’re also a Social Media company with a great amount of depth behind our experience. Many of our original customers were early social media companies such as SMS.ac, GoFish and Facebook.

On Thursday of last week we unveiled our latest and first real release of our own Social Shopping site, Kazowie.com, to the world. Since we’re received some flattering articles written about our site. Check it out, explore it, join, grow it, participate and and be sure to give us any feedback you may have through our contact form on our site. You can see some more of our features over at our blog.

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Here are some links to our coverage:

http://mashable.com/2008/06/24/kazowie-shop-socially-the-startup-review/
http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/06/19/create-gift-registries-and-more-at-kazowie-social-shopping-site/
http://localadvertisingjournal.com/2008/06/22/social-shopping-is-this-new-phone-any-good/

We’re happy to announce that Scenechronize by CleverMachine has launched. We’ve worked with the talented team at CleverMachine over the past year and hope to have a long relationship designing this breakthrough application.

Introducing 21st Century Production

scenechronize is bringing a new level of efficiency and peace of mind to film and television production. It combines the script, breakdown elements and scheduling into a single web application. For the first time, information is available from all departments - anytime, anywhere. Producers and their entire production team can use scenechronize from development through shoot, and beyond. scenechronize coordinates the expected and allows the crew to deal efficiently with the unexpected – ensuring that everyone and everything is ready on the set.

Without these products and services we’d have a hard time being us.

1. Paycycle for employees
2. Basecamp for project management
3. Quickbooks for books
4. Blinksale for invoicing
5. Google Analytics for tracking success
6. Fireworks for designing
7. Dreamweaver for development
8. Google Apps for communication
9. Comcast for bandwidth
10. Mediatemple for hosting

I like reflect from time to time on some of the projects and challenges we’ve come across during the year. We’ve had plenty of interesting projects to work on thus far and I’d like to share some of the more notable ones.

Openwave® Mobile Widgets - Visual User Interface Design

Widgets have gained the attention of subscribers and content providers in the PC environment. The challenge for the mobile industry is to leverage this momentum to drive adoption of their mobile data services.

Opposing Views - Skinning and UI Tuneup Project

“Inside Opposing Views you will find rich information on important issues — presented by the most respected authorities on the issue, whatever it is. Organizations and experts from around the world use Opposing Views to present their views and respond to each other’s challenges. If something changes in the news today, you’ll know what the experts think about it — today.”

Barnes and Noble - Top Secret

Complete nuts to bolts refresh of an application.

SuccessMetrics - Visual User Interface Design - Coming Soon

“Success Metrics is the first provider of Intelligent Business Applications™ for sales organizations. By actually linking actions to outcomes, Success Metrics empowers sales forces with insight into the drivers of success and specific actions they can take to exploit them - enabling firms to drive revenue, wallet share and sales effectiveness.”

Tript from Big Internet - Branding and Visual User Interface Design - Coming Summer 2007

Your Travel, Reloaded

Scenechronize from CleverMachine - Visual and User Interface Design - Coming Fall 2007

“Online production management system for film & television. Scenechronize gets your entire production team on the same page, with access to the information they need. Think of it as your online production office staffed 24×7.”

Adeptra, Adeptra Portfolio Manager - Visual and User Interface Design

Adeptra provides automated contact and resolution services to companies engaged in Consumer Credit and Risk Management.

Rapouts - Visual and User Interface Design - Coming Summer 2007

“RapOuts is the social messaging platform for marketers. We make it easy to build your audience by letting your most enthusiastic fans drive the creation and spread of your message “

iKnow! from Cerego - User Interface Design - Coming Soon

“At the core of Cerego’s new product offering is a patented learning engine designed by teams of scientists, technologists, and learning experts. The system is optimized to help you build lasting memory for any type of fact-based information.”

theWebtop from Atlantis Computing - Visual User Interface Design - Currently in Open Beta

“theWebtop is our on demand service that provides Rich full fledged applications:

• OpenOffice
• The Gimp (Excellent Photoshop alternative)
• Xara ( llustration/vector art)
• Scribus (page layout/publishing)
• Evolution (Calendaring /Email)

all via a web browser. All of this with 2GB of online storage and neat collaboration features for sharing files and applications with your buddies.”

SuccessFactors - Version 10 Environment Skins for T-Mobile, Amdocs, and Lehman Brothers.

“The SuccessFactors story begins with a complete suite of intuitive web-based software that meets the Performance & Talent Management demands of companies of all sizes. But we’re about much more than software, we’re about your success.”

NeoClarus - Visual User Interface Design

“The NeoClarus suite of applications is the only self-contained financial reporting solution to harness the power of XBRL for your organization. It’s the first Web-based, collaborative solution to let you create complete, accurate financial reports on-demand, no matter where the data is held, what it’s called, or where it’s needed.”

On April 11th CMP announced the 2007 25 Innovation Showcase Winners selected by Sand Hill Group.

We’re excited to hear the news here at Momentum. Personally I was involved with the SuccessFactors platform prior and during its early explosion as the sole contract UI designer and we’ve continued to work with them in various capacities since. I had the pleasure to work with them for two years to design some revolutionary pieces of technology and I’m very proud to see them where they are today. One of the only publicly available pieces of technologies from SuccessFactors, Managers Edition, was probably my favorite of all projects as it used Flex, my favorite technology, and allowed us to break from the HTML mold we were at the time constrained to. SuccessFactors Manager’s Edition, was nominated for Best New Product or Service category in The 2006 American Business Awards.

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Atlantis Computing, another Momentum customer, also made the list. I can’t exactly disclose what these guys are up to, however, this indeed is the best technology we’ve ever seen. I wish Chetan and his group the best and hope to hear some more great news out of them soon.