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.