121Time.com is one of those OpenLaszlo applications, which really surprise us. It's a Swiss online watch shop with a fancy personalized watch configuration tool. All components are branded, integrating well with the corporate identity of 121time.com. You don't only find the normal product categories, watches can be selected by collection, style, theme and from scratch. Well, building a watch from scratch is what you really should try.

121Time.com supports switching the application language at runtime, offering English, French and German. The complete process of selecting or configuring a watch, check out and payment is handled from out of the OpenLaszlo application. You can save your design in a watch safe, and there's a lot more to discover, just try for yourself.

The really surprising thing is that 121Time.com built this OpenLaszlo application without telling us about it. The way I discovered the application was a simple Google search for the file ending .lzx.swf. Please, if you use OpenLaszlo for your rich Internet application, intranet application, application running on mobile or embedded devices (iPhone, TV set-top-box, etc.) get back to us and tell us about the application! There's a good chance that the application will be added to the OpenLaszlo Live Applications showcase on the LaszloSystems.com site.

If you have a Facebook account, check out the Alive! Facebook application. Alive! tries to help us change our diet and physical activity behavior:

Project Alive! is an 'intervention' system integrated with Facebook, that is designed to help you make small changes in your diet and physical activity behaviors. The program consists of 12 weekly email messages that are tailored to YOUR current lifestyle and to YOUR preferences.

Here's a screenshot of Alive!, and it looks like I still have to improve my diet and physical behavior a lot (ok, I used the neat function to skip the initial question and have the form filled out with random values).

What was the motivation to build a Facebook version of Alive?

We have completed the programming and in late July will launch Alive as an application on Facebook. In this case the target population is individual consumers. The initial screening questionnaire and instant feedback will be available free to all. After receiving the feedback, those who wish to participate in the 12-week program will pay only $10. With 30 million Facebook members, and the viral nature of these communities, we could make a contribution to public health and also generate considerable revenue from this channel. (you can read the complete article here)

A nice example of how you can embed OpenLaszlo applications and widgets into existing websites and social networking systems. Don Hopkins, one of the very old friends of the OpenLaszlo project has been working on this application. Don built the OpenLaszlo YouTube demo applications as well.

You'll find more information about Alive! and NutritionQuest, the company behind Alive! here.

Korelab from Japan built an OpenLaszlo based Twitter badge.

Nice work, and for everyone capable of reading Japanese, here's the Japanese version.

Long-standing OpenLaszlo community member Sebastian Wagner released a new open source project today named openmeetings. It's a video conferencing and group collaboration application, built using OpenLaszlo's new streaming media support and the open source media server Red5.

This sort of project is great for the OpenLaszlo community, and we wish Sebastian good fortune and many collaborators with this project!

PCAnn started an open beta phase for the new PC hardware configuration tool implemented with OpenLaszlo. I've always wondered how long it would take to see the first OpenLaszlo application online in Korea, as the country's open source community is a lot smaller than the Japanese one. But Korea has one of the highest penetration rates for high speed internet connections, making it a perfect candidate for rich Internet applications. As more than 70% of the country's internet users are connected with a speed of 22mBit or more application download size doesn't matter in the Korean market.

The PCAnn OpenLaszlo application features drag&drop functionality for the wishlist the shopping cart as well as refined filtering functions for the various components on offer. We are excited to see OpenLaszlo adoption in Korea, adding another country to the already long list of countries with OpenLaszlo applications deployed. Congratulations to the PCAnn team!

The folks at Sun have been doing a tremendous job getting projects open sourced and released to the community. I'm pleased to announce that Project Orbit has been released by Sun, and is available here:
https://orbit.dev.java.net/

svn repository is here: https://orbit.dev.java.net/source/browse/orbit/

Project Orbit is another runtime for Laszlo that takes the DHTML runtime output and allows it to run in Java ME by emulating the browser DOM. From the main page: 'Project Orbit is the Sun Java ME viewer of Laszlo content. It is a Java ME CDC/Personal Basis application that uses the Rhino engine to run LZX programming language Web 2.0 (AJAX style) applications.'

If you'd like to learn more, I'll be speaking with Hinkmond Wong at JavaOne in San Francisco today at 4:10pm - sorry about the short notice!

There is a lot of low-hanging fruit here - integration with the OpenLaszlo developer's console (a Java radio button), and tighter integration with the OpenLaszlo compiler come to mind. This is a community effort - Sun and OpenLaszlo are relying on folks to pitch in and help move the project forward. If you're looking to contribute to a very cool, forward looking project, here's your chance!

Monster.com, the biggest and most comprehensive internet job search engine on the web started a public beta for the new OpenLaszlo based job search application. The development team announced the the public beta in the OpenLaszlo forums.

It's exciting to see another adoption of OpenLaszlo technology by a market leader in the internet industry. At startup, the application shows a random live feed of jobs as they are coming into the system. The rich filtering options will make it a lot easier for anyone to filter out the jobs you don't want, saving you a lot of time in the process.

I remember that I was playing around with the German version of Monster.com about two years ago. I thought to myself: "With OpenLaszlo the searchs' functionality would be a lot better." Well, here we go! Congratulations to the development team at Monster for taking the application to a public beta. We can't wait to see the application step out of the beta phase. Great job!

Lately, we've been finding out about new OpenLaszlo applications by a somewhat unexpected route. There's a lot of interest within Laszlo Systems in web-based interaction design, and so frequently folks send around links to new sites with particularly noteworthy design. Someone will always right-click on the site, and sometimes (more and more these days) we'll see that tell-tale "About OpenLaszlo..." line at the top of the contextual menu. What a thrill!

There were two such sightings yesterday, from folks who have built amazing applications without (as far as I know) any formal or informal contact with Laszlo Systems or the OpenLaszlo community. Without further ado:

Bret Victor's website

An Ajax front-end to Cafe Press

For those of us who live in the OpenLaszlo bug database, it is really gratifying to see that folks are building real applications in OpenLaszlo on their own. Thank you for the inspiration!

This is huge! Walmart.com has chosen OpenLaszlo as the core technology for its new web site features. Check out the site at: Walmart.com.

See:

• Walmart.com Relaunches With Open Source Features
• Walmart.com Respins with Open Source (OpenLaszlo)

eBay users can now use a jazzy new interface for making shopping on eBay more fun and effective thanks to Cooqy, an OpenLaszlo application. See Ryan Stewart's ZDNet blog entry for more information.