Posted By: Rory | May 18th, 2007 @ 9:09 AM | 52,998 Views | 27 Comments
You probably haven't heard of it, but you're also probably going to start hearing a lot about it in the near future.

Popfly is being announced today - as I'm posting this, actually.

To keep it short and simple so you can get right to watching the video, Popfly makes it easy for non-devs to create web sites, mashups, and more.

Drag, drag, click - you've got a Flikr + Virtual Earth mashup.

You can even point and click your way to a Vista Gadget.

No kidding.

After watching our video, check out the overview here and there is also an article over on techcrunch.
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For more demos, be sure to check out http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91175!
Yahoo pipes in Sliverlight.

Why did Techcrunch and the Scobleizer get a heads-up when Microsoft community bloggers didn't?


Greetings!

We have received your request for an invitation to Popfly. We will e-mail your invitation when we send out our next batch of invites. If you have any further questions about Popfly, you can reach the Popfly team at our Popfly User Feedback address: suf@microsoft.com

Cheers,

The Popfly Team


Cheers, is that how you great people in the Great Northwest?

Greetings was the way the US Draft board greated you.

Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Dan Fernandez is a woman? Who knew?

tewissler
tewissler
Me... Rom... Good...

Great Video Rory-

This looks awesome.

Nice add in for Visual Studio for devs.
Nice web interface for both devs and non-devs.

Tools like these are going to bring even more and more people into development - this is going to be a great tech!

RoyalSchrubber
RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Great video, popfly will realy rock when it comes out Big Smile

One thing bothers me though - I am not that much of a web developer although I have some experiences, just not with ASP.NET/web services etc - I am kinda basic scripting lanuage+sql guy. So the question is - do I need IIS/Windows machine to run Popfly? Or is it completely static content and you can run it from let's say OpenBSD with Apache/Lighttpd (that's what I would do) so everything is executed on client machine in a browser? 
Where is it  hosted/executed? Thx for answers Smiley

Cheers is the British way though Wink.
so is this why c9 ver 4 is taking so long? will it have Popfly support (ie; the sandbox gadgets etc ?
Charles
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jamie wrote:
so is this why c9 ver 4 is taking so long? will it have Popfly support (ie; the sandbox gadgets etc ?


V4 is written on a completely different code base. That is the reason it's taking a while to complete... It's a monumental task and the dev team has been cranking really, really hard. It has nothing to do with Popfly support, though that's an interesting idea, Jamie.

C
This absolutely rocks.  What I really would love to see is a biz focused version that could be hosted behind a firewall, have biz focused blocks (business data, news, etc) and have the ability to publish the resultant mashup natively to SharePoint. That would absolutley rock and really shake up the Intranet world.
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