Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

The WaterManager application allows you to virtually control the water heights in the river areas of the Netherlands. The goal is to give you an impression on how difficult this task is!
The way it works is based on the reality; this is how we keep our country ‘dry’. About 50% of The Netherlands would have been […]

See http://webmessenger.msn.com. I gave it a quick try and even though it’s a nice initiative, this web application does not yet feel like the desktop application. You all know what I am going to say; this *begs* for a Flash interface
I have not looked into it, but since it’s fully build with HTML […]

Nice to see how Microsoft uses Macromedia Flash Video to promote it’s new Office version for Apple’s Mac platform. Macromedia brings Microsoft and Apple together
Another nice Flash Video presentation linked to from Microsoft’s homepage is their Taste Of Tomorrow. Despite some reports on other weblogs and mailinglists, I am actually not convinced that these […]

One of the cool things that got launched recently is a quite nice FlashCom driven application “Euro 2004 Flashback“. Check it out if you are a football - soccer - fan
ps: I’ve been overwhelmed by new customer contacts around Flex, Breeze and Flash Communication Server and have not had a lot of time to post […]

Nice usage of Flash video by Volvo. The rest of this promo site is great as well, it really creates a good user experience. Unfortunately I have no idea who developed this (please contact me if you know who did). [via www.digcult.nl]
The quality of the small movie that plays first is not that great, but click […]

Dutch financial and insurance company AEGON is hosting several small Rich Internet Applications to calculate your mortgage costs or funeral insurance costs and there is a module to get you started with a financial planning for your future. Of course they all have the same goal, which is to get you in touch with their sales […]

HanzeVast has a usefull RIA ‘aanbod manager‘ to get insight in the buildings that they currently have for sale. It allows you to filter on building type, region, surface and several other criteria. It took me a few tries to get used to the interface, but now I understand it it’s pretty usefull. More comments in the detail […]

Dutch insurance company FBTO has a rich internet application that allows you to compare the costs of your current insurance contract with one of their contracts.
It’s good to see that this concept is finally being picked up be several bigger Dutch companies. (Developed by Martin de Ruiter from Macromedia Alliance Partner ClockWork - also known from […]

The Dutch department of the World Nature Found has a nice video archive with stories from the field. WNF employees and popular Dutch tv personalities have been interviewed in front of the camera. Every week they have a featured story on their home page. It’s also more than just video; each story does have a photo slideshow […]

I have created a new category in this blog named “Site Seeing”. It’ll be my place to dump links to nice websites from Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg. I’m not hunting for them, I just add them when I become aware of them and want to let others know about it. Besides that, it’ll be easy for […]