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Productive Web Apps | WEB APPS TO HELP YOU AT WORK AND PLAY Black Friday Ads - The Official Black Friday 2013 Website for Black Friday Deals! Web.AppStorm | Web Applications Reviewed, Rounded Up & Explained The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map Micro Center - Computers, Electronics, Computer Parts, Networking, Gaming, Software, and more! BitLet - the BitTorrent Applet In the summer of 2007, shortly after launching Novlet, Daniele and I still had time to spare and were looking for something new to build. Sure enough, within a short period, Daniele came up with the idea that would soon become BitLet: a BitTorrent client that could run in a browser without requiring users to install anything on their computer. Back then, browsers had very limited capabilities: AJAX had been recently introduced (in 2005), web applications were moving from static pages to dynamic client UIs but no browser could do things like opening sockets and writing files locally, central requirements for a peer to peer file sharing application. We found a solution in an unlikely piece of technology: Java applets. Despite Java’s success as a programming language, applets had never been that popular among casual users. While a good idea in principle (small applications that could be downloaded and launched from web pages), the concept never got traction beyond a few niches.

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