Apollo Camp : ebay, effectiveUI and Artemis : Sean Christmann
March 26th, 2007 by Mike ChambersIn this video from Apollo Camp, Sean Christmann from effectiveUI shows off some of the work they have been doing with ebay, as well as a new framework, called Artemis, which they are developing to allow developers to extend Apollo functionality.
Very cool!
EffectiveUI is really doing some amazing things right now.
Artemis seems pretty interesting.
Heres a bit more info if anyones interested.
First eBay Desktop should be moving into public beta soon, and you can track any announcements on that at http://alanlewis.typepad.com/
Second, we’ve been making alot of movement on Artemis and we’re trying to get it ready for the community to start poking around with it and writing their own plugins. We should have a private alpha very soon at http://artemis.effectiveui.com. I’m hoping to get the lightsaber demo up soon after for people to play with
[...] Sean Christmann over at effectiveUI and I have talked briefly about this and as an avid gamer he says he tries to find inspiration for the kinds of experiences they build in those games. I don’t think this is something that’s going to come tomorrow or even soon, but it does make for some cool food for though. If the idea of business apps behaving like games takes off, why not make those applications that much more interactive? The technology is there to start doing it, but in this case, I don’t think any kind of killer app is in sight. What do you think? Is there a place for video game like experiences in work? Second Life has opened up the virtual office a bit. Can RIAs help bridge that gap? [...]