I just saw Richard MacManus posted about Bungee Labs, and I want everyone to go read it. I hate Ajax, but this thing is off the hook. Richard does it better justice (but Richard, I don’t really think it competes with Apollo at all) so here’s the quick version:

Bungee Labs developed a web-based IDE that makes it really easy to hook into web services and build an application. The IDE is really, really cool and you can throw together an application pretty quickly and leverage power features like data binding. In some ways, the IDE is very similar to Expression Blend.

What makes their model different is that they let you build this application, then they store it on their servers and charge you based on the traffic to it. In some ways it’s like Amazon’s S3 and EC2 but for building AND deploying applications. I asked them if they were going to do a Flex version, but no word on that.

I’m going to try to do a more in depth look later this month.

[tags]Bungee Labs, Web Development, Ajax[/tags]

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