Saturday, February 11th, 2006
Google Web Editor – Rumour
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Google is *rumoured* to be working on an Ajax web page editor:
Google has a project codenamed trogdor, an ajax webpage editor for creating web pages. = geocities except with a javascript page creator.
Google or not, an Ajax-style GeoCities makes sense. We’ve seen portal-like editors like Dobrado that make light work of page creation by novices. Even Protopage makes a good editor for someone who wants to whip up a quick homepage. We also have many rich text editors being used in production, such as JotSpot‘s use of the Dojo Rich Text Editor.
Tools like these not only make basic HTML generation a breeze, but could also help create some Ajax features too. Imagine a Portlet editor using drag-and-drop to set up the link flow. Another example is a Live Search widget, allowing all pages managed by the user to be searched.
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One can only hope…
would love to see what they come up with
HTMLjive, the first JavaScript HTML editor, just celebrated its 10th birthday. So maybe Google is behind the times? :)
more sites & projects using ajax can be found in http://www.ajaxprojects.com
hope they’ll be as good as Neo-CMS http://www.neo-cms.be
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Is it going to be something like http://www.carbonmade.com/ ?
But I don’t want an Ajax web editor!
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Hey,
I’ve been reading your blog for a while and love it. Speaking of Google, I searched for AJAX forum and the number one site was in Dutch! granted, they had a tiny english section and nothing against Dutch (My wife is Dutch), but to try to learn more about AJAX, I really don’t want to deal with a language barrier as well.
Nonetheless, I’ve since then set up a forum called http://www.discussxml.com which will deal with AJAX as one of the topics. Come on over and visit. It’s new but should get up and running with more members soon. And helpful contributions would be awesome!
I really don’t see the need of an AJAX web editor.
Is this just another FCKEditor?
Don’t they already have what they need in Blogger?
Or possibly this is some super CSS-based editor.
Google rumors: Ajax web page creator?
More Google rumors on the horizon. Now it’s an Ajax based web site creator code named: trogdor. Would be interesting if Google comes out with such a thing, although I wouldn’t hold my breath. They would have to launch a…
Corby – you probably went to a site about the Dutch football club Ajax by mistake :P
Interesting idea, I’ll be curious to see what the finished product looks like. Hopefully we don’t see another Gtalk with minimal features and looks like it was just pumped out as fast as possible. I’m worried Google is trying to do too much with too many products, I’d much rather see a few decent innovative products than everything with a Google brand on it. Can someone say monopoly?
Ajax in dutch is a soccerteam from Amsterdam. I don´t think it´s what you´ve been looking for.
lol!!! You know what! I realized that after some more research this morning! I was looking through the AJAX section and was thinking to myself? “I know European English is different than North American Eglish???” But after readin in a few pages, I came to that realization! lol
Here’s bad news to whoever broke this – every trusted beta tester of that product sees a different ‘codename’ for the product.
In other words, whoever was assigned ‘trogdor’ just told Google they broke their NDA!
Google already has an editor. It’s called Blogger.
Ajaxian.com
More interesting stuff about Ajax at the Ajaxian website. Rumor has it that Google is working on an Ajax
[...] Ajaxian and Valleywag are talking about the “Google is building a browser-based web page editor” rumor. We (Homestead) delivered a browser-based (Ajax) web site design tool last year at Demo 05. We call it SiteBuilder Lite. SBL is compatible with our primary editing tool, SiteBuilder, and is usually a user’s first stop for customizing their site after selecting one of over 2000 professionaly-built QuickSite designs as a starting point. [...]
The digg effect has begun
Ok, so if this is true it would mean Google is moving into the hosting space. All their other products are free, so does this mean Google is positioning itself to offer free hosting? They already give you 2.5 gigs of space free for a GMail account.
Forget the editor, free hosting is the real story.
Lets wait and see…
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Codename Trogdor!? what, where is Codename Strong Bad or Codename Homestar Runner? They should ask me next time. :)
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[...] Steve Rubel quotes Ajaxian that Google is rumored to be working on an Ajax-based web page editor code-named trogdor. While Ajaxian believes that an Ajax-style GeoCities makes sense, Steve is of opinion that Google will use trogdor as a new front-end for Blogger. Technorati Tags: Google, Ajax, GeoCities, trogdor, Blogger Filed under: Branding, Technology [...]
I think Google should use TinyMCE (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com).
[...] Ajaxian and Philipp Lenssen are talking about Google Trogdor, a rumored ajax editor for creating webpages. [...]
[...] Ajaxian et Philipp Lenssen parlent de Google Trogdor, un éditeur ajax pour créer des pages Web encore à l’état de rumeur. [...]
[...] BTW, on the Ajaxian blog it says that Google is developing an AJAX-based web page editor. [...]
[...] Google Web Editor Google or not, an Ajax-style GeoCities makes sense. We’ve seen portal-like editors like Dobrado that make light work of page creation by novices. Even Protopage makes a good editor for someone who wants to whip up a quick homepage. We also have many ric (tags: Google Web Editor) [...]
This would be great if it turn out to be true – the more applications that we can run from anywhere and that free us from our desktop PCs the better.
omg they stole from http://www.homestarrunner.com i mean trogdor they used trogdor for the code name its not a code name its TROGDOR THE BURNINATER that is a character from there see for yourself
ps its sooo cool u rearly should watch
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html
[...] Over the last few months they have hired an extraordinary amount of new innovative minds (very reminiscent of the 90’s) and R&D spending and new technology development is at very high levels. What is truly interesting is that where Google developed their core through “business to business” revenues, they are now beginning to shift into uncharted waters and focus on the business to consumer industry. With the Google Video service, their new Paypal-like service, web editor, music service (which was said to be a rumor but it makes sense with the direction they are headed), and who knows what else, the general shift is towards the consumer and moving away from what made them a tech giant. [...]
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Trogdor is a Dragon Man Not a Web Application
But everyone knows Trogdor is not a blog editor or a web editor but a dragon with a muscular human arm.
Trogdor was an editor. No, he was an AJAX editor. Burninating the Angelfire. Burnating the Yahoo. Burninating all the free web sites. And their thatched roof HTML!!!
what is ajax…hmmm, i search now
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Well, looks like you were right…
http://pages.google.com/
[...] In general, the excitement seems a bit low – much like other Google products that have been hyped or rumoured before the actual launch (say Google Base, Google Video, Google Talk, etc). Nevertheless, I think Google Pages is pretty strategic. It is an important component that allows Google to compete with Microsoft’s Office Live services (Minus a domain management service) in capturing the Small Business Market. Imagine free web hosting service – tied to Google Account for accountability – with Google Base for product catalogues, Google Mail +Talk for sales or product supports, AdSense for marketing, and Google Analytics for measuring marketing performance. Why would Google do that? If I put Google payment infrastructure (which is currently used in Google Video) into the picture, Google would be able to tap into a new source of revenues from these so-called long-tailed businesses. Less grander scenario, I hope to see Google Pages and Blogger merge their features – allow bloggers to easily build and customize their blogs [...]
the google incorpore the writely (web word processor)… look
http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm
Google Pages is really nice because they are one of the few(if not only) who do not place banner ads on your free site. However, you must use your email for the web address.
I recomend using a free no ads url masking service. Http://v2w.org will let you mask any web site to Http://WhatEverYouWant.v2w.org …
So for instance, if your gmail is johndoe@gmail.com and your google page is johndoe.googlepages.com you can sign up for free with V2W and basically change the address of your google page to JohnsPlace.v2w.org, for example. And you still won’t have to display any banners or ads.
dsds
Hello, look at googlepages.com
very good
Interesting!
I would really love to see what the big G comes up with :-)
I know really goode Ajax editor – 1st JavaScript Editor.
There are some else not bad Ajax editors.
which books do you suggest about ajax ?
thanks
“Foundations of Ajax” and “Ajax in Action”.
It’s called Page Creator and it definitely exists. It would never work for a real business’ website but it is very Geocities.
Excellent web site I will be visiting often
this has helped me so much!!! thanks
My guess is that these websites will only be accessible through Google AdWords.