links for 2006-03-09

“CL2 is close­ly, very close­ly, inte­grat­ed with Gmail. It includes now-stan­dard web 2.0 fea­tures — Ajax, sub­scrip­tion feeds for inte­gra­tion with iCal and oth­er desk­top cal­en­dars, event cre­ation, search, shar­ing, noti­fi­ca­tions (includ­ing SMS) and more.”

I can’t imag­ine actu­al­ly ditch­ing Google for a Microsoft search prod­uct, but I must say that I am impressed with the Image Search func­tion­al­i­ty — using AJAX, they mim­ic the iPhoto/Picasa thumb­nail view.