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.

Application Sighting: OpenLaszlo makes IBM's home page "special"

If you haven't already seen IBM's "What makes you special?" campaign, it is definitely worth a look. Go directly to the campaign here: http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/ondemand/us/innovation/index.shtml and get a look at the new OpenLaszlo-inspired interface. It is a multi-panel, eye-catching application using many design elements, including expanding and collapsing panels, a horizontally sliding scrollbar of images, embedded podcasts, and animated context-specific text and graphics. Check it out!

You may have noticed that the subversion log that's linked to from the download page is a year out of date. Well, so I did I, and I decided to do something about it. Browse on over to the OpenLaszlo Subversion log viewer, and you can see the most recent twenty changes, along with the friendly faces of the people who commited them.

Of course, the command line subversion tool works too:
svn log http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk.