.NET can play too

In all the commotion of Web 2.0 all that is muttered on the technology side of things is AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and PHP. Well, the following applications prove .NET apps can hang too. Sure the framework is more robust but it’s all server-side, and not client-side where that robustness shows its ugly face.

I can build a simple .NET web application with twenty lines of code the likes of a RoR scaffold and adhere to the convention over configuration model of Ruby on Rails. Don’t get me wrong, I am learning Ruby on Rails and loving it. But a few tWits ago they discussed the surprising fact that Writely was writtin in C#.Net. I didn’t understand why they were astonished but realized it’s because it is rare to hear.

Anyway, here are some great ‘Web 2.0′ services from the .NET community.

PageFlakes
With all the hoopla over AJAX portals/desktops this one really rises above the rest. It’s very clean and nicely designed. It’s also extensible and highly configurable. And it’s smooooth. In fact its the only app of its kind that I could stand to use for more than one day.

Titlez
Titlez is another good designed site and serves a nice web service niche. It uses the Amazon API to aggregate statistcs about books sales and uses that to trend futures. “As a publisher, author, agent, or other book publishing professional, you can use the information provided by TitleZ to help make intelligent decisions about future projects.”

Squeet
Squeet is not as well designed as the others but provides a service that seems to be growing in popularity — RSS -> Email delivery. The movement in this niche is an attempt to bring RSS to the masses using an established medium, and Squeet has a good implementation that we will be switching to when we have time.

tags: web 2.0, web development

Related posts:

1. Can Microsoft play with Adobe? Microsoft has been dabbling in this area for some with...