Demonstration Web Sites

Sometimes a demonstration is better than any amount of descriptive text. Most of the demonstrations I've seen on the Internet are simple, at this point, but the potential for creating some very interesting Web applications is definitely there. The following Web sites provide demonstrations you can try online.

• CapeSpeller 1.0 http://capescience. capeclear .com/google/spell.shtml

• Google by Email http://capescience.capeclear.com/google/

• Google2RSS http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog/stories/2002/04/13/google2rss.html

• GoogleBox ASP http://www.edazzle.net/#googlebox

• GoogleBrowser http://www.kasei.com/google/browse

• Google Graph Browser http://traumwind.de/soap/

• Google Outline Browser http://radio.outliners.com/googleOutlineBrowser

• Loading OPML Documents http://w3future.com/html/opmlloader.html#rel=http///www.soapware.org/

Note  

An Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) document uses an XML-based format for exchange of outline structured information. Designing a Web page or other document as an outline makes it easier to understand in many cases. You can learn more about this technology at http://opml.scripting.com/spec.

• Mail 2 Google http://www.ohardt.com/mail2google/

• Spell Checker for JEdit http://www.paradox1x.org/archives/00000421.shtml

• Swingin' Google http://davidwatson.org:8086/2002/04/20.html#a90

One Web site deserves a special mention because the developer has created a production-quality Google Web Services application. However, this application doesn't stop at providing Google information ”it also uses Amazon Web Services, which makes this site quite interesting. You can learn more about the developer at http://blog.outer- court .com/archive/2003_06_21_index.html. The application appears at http://www.authorama.com/. Figure A.1 shows typical output from this Web site ”the Google output appears on the left and the Amazon output on the right.

Figure A.1: This production Web site relies on output from two Web services