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Re:Creative Genius needed... by colabopad_edd on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @05:59AM (#866411)
Being able to develop and use widgets on a whiteboard is quite a differentiating feature I think. I don't know of any AJAX based whiteboards doing this. Secondly, the application isn't just an AJAX app, it is based on SVG.

JSP/J2EE is used for several reasons that I won't get into:)

However creating a widget requires only Javascript.

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Re:Creative Genius needed... by jnaut on Thursday October 08, 2009 @02:58AM (#868507)
widgets, whiteboard, --> interesting!!.

Actually I was looking to build a collab whiteboard app myself some time ago, but then I decided to focus only on one, the one I am currently building. I explored what is out there at that point of time and I found quite a few, a few good one's will be http://www.jotspace.com/, http://www.instructure.com/ [not a whiteboard, more of other collab features], http://etherpad.com/. Check them out. That interest was the reason why went ahead and explored it. The UI is prototypical, needs a lot of work.

I will play with it sometime when I get time.

Keep up the good work.

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