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Following emerging development in online/offline computing like Adobe’s Apollo platform or Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, Google releases Gears which will allow developers to create applications using JavaScript that will run in offline mode and could synchronize to a remote application (e.g. server application) when available.

Google Gears group writes:

Google Gears allows developers to enhance their AJAX applications to be able to run even when their users are offline. This is the official discussion group for web developers interested in using Google Gears in their applications.

Google Gears provides application programming interface (APIs) for offline application access and data storage (using SQLlite). Licensed: BSD

More on Google Gears

• Google Gears Lets Developers Take Apps Offline
• Official Google Gears Site, groups and API documentation

1. MooTools /MooFx can easily take-over Scriptaculous as a Javascript framework/Animation. The documentation is rich in content but it’s too technical that I can’t even find where the “getting started for dummies is”. I got to get my hands dirty on this one! It’s an improved Prototype.js!

2. Cisco has agreed to acquire Webex for $3.2 billion as published over at techcrunch.com. That’s a huge price tag that Cisco is willing to spend their money into considering the fact that web conferencing market is crowded these days! Add to the fact that there are a number of web 2.0 conferencing startup sprouting all over Silicon Valley scene to compete and bring innovation backed by big time venture capitalist. ( I will list them here when I find my super-secret-list! ). This is just a wow deal because as far as I can remember, the only deal that made me say “wow” was when Google bought Youtube for $1.6 Billion in stock (also here and here)

3. It’s weekend tomorrow! Okay, I know it’s non-sense but hey, I will finally have a time to blog more! Hopefully…

Shoot!