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

SynthaSite has again been praised for it’s ease of use and innovative design at The Industry Standard Innovation 100 Awards for community & social.  Momentum worked on SynthaSite’s new UI which was launched back in July.  Brad Damphousse, one of our Senior Designers, shined on this project by creating a beautiful and now award winning interface.

Other winners include Mint, TripIt, & Etsy
Read about it here:

http://www.thestandard.com/awards/tis100/2008/tis-100-winner-community-and-social-synthasite

It’s always great when our customers get recognition and of course, to see our designs at work.  iKnow is truly revolutionary learning system and that’s been proven with explosive growth.  They saw a 40% increase in users in just two months!  This is a prime example of how investing in UI design early pays off in the long run.
iKnow Is A Social Learning Platform That Can Really Make You Smarter.

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.

Take care of our baby, she needs a lot of love and attention until she can learn to walk on her own.

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/

I was very excited about the concept behind this the moment I heard it. Over the past 18 months we’ve been working with VaultStreet to help the brand, design, and develop their application. After consulting with Metavante on their Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment platform for a great deal of time I knew the ins and outs of the electronic bill payment, presentation and presentment. Receiving and paying bills electronically is great, however, having a multi-state, small conglomerate of companies with several bank accounts made it difficult during tax time. What I really needed was a way to access all of my financial documents in a central place. Enter VaultStreet.

From their press release:

VaultStreet supports the collection of documents from leading
online brokerages, including Charles Schwab, E*Trade, Fidelity
Investments and Scottrade - which cover more than 90 percent of the US
online brokerage market - as well as leading banking institutions,
including Bank of America, Citibank, City National Bank, ING Direct,
US Bank, Wachovia, Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo, which serve 75
percent of all bank account holders nationwide. VaultStreet also
supports document collection from utilities including Verizon
Telephone and Verizon Broadband, and will add additional institutions
in the future.

Check out their press release here.

VaultStreet is offering a free 30 day trial and the first 500 registered users get a free year of service.

You can find them at http://vaultstreet.com

On March 14, Microsoft announced their plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers.  We worked with Rapt on two of their applications to create satisfying user experiences through effective user interface design. Read more in the case study.

We’re extremely excited to see that Seero has been released to a limited beta. Mashable readers are being offered 200 invites.

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.