Apollo
Adobe released the first public alpha version of Apollo today. It's sort of an anti-AJAX, bringing elements of the online interaction to a desktop client application. Interesting. They still have a few months of development ahead before the product is final but so far so good, looks impressive. The main hurdle will be adoption of the downloadable client, it may be a few months before they reach critical mass. Music site FineTune is already using it. Adobe also has a bunch of showcase apps on their site. Nice.

