Does adobe have an eye on Fauxto?

Web applications are applications which are accessed via web using internet or intranet. The main advantage of web application is ability to maintain and update without installation on client machine.

As web 2.0 progresses, RIA that is Rich Internet Applications started popping up on web, which has features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. People started working on flash based applications, and flex technology emerged. As flex was setting up on the web Ajax based applications with no proprietary like flex entered in. And it started a new era for webapps. Techies started comparing both Ajax and Flex. We will come to know which will sustain down the line.

As of now both flex and ajax based applications are used in web 2.0. Google’s gmail, Google suggest, Google maps and many services are Ajax based. However, Google’s chat gadget, Yahoo’s online chat, online streaming media like YouTube are using flex/flash technologies.

Office applications started online and spread to wide by the initiative by Google doc, spreadsheet and presentation. Now photo editing applications are also started entry in this new web. Check out these online photos editing applications comparison.

Apart from these, one application which really dragged my attention is flex based online photoshop, having very basic tools to play with image yet. Fauxto providing Canvas, Toolbar, Image info, Color info, Layer info with few Filters and Zoom in/out facility. Image crop, transform, editing is possible in it.

Adobe must be waiting for mature development in Fauxto, probably this will be their next acquisition after Buzzword.