Ambassador Publications announces Dojo-based app May 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm by Dylan Schiemann
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ajax Dark Matter and the variety of interesting things happening behind the scenes.
This week, Ambassador Publications announced the launch of their internet advertising platform. We’ve worked with Ambassador to build this application, which provides their internal sales force a feature-rich, Dojo-based web application for selling and managing ad campaigns across the major search text ad networks (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Looksmart, SuperPages, etc.).
From a technical perspective, the platform was a significant challenge to build, with over 700K of JavaScript in a single-page application, over 50 different custom Dojo widgets, auto-save, auto-sync, and a custom server-side platform to integrate with the various ad networks and other business operations and third party services.
We’ve pushed and pushed and pushed on the browser, contributing fixes back to Dojo as appropriate. From day 1, Ambassador Publications understood the value of contributing code back to open source projects that made their platform better, without sacrificing the commercial advantages of the proprietary portions of their business.
Ambassador Publications’ customers include local and national advertisers that want to advertise across the major ad networks with successful results, rather than spending significant time and expense learning the tools and bidding strategies required for each of the major ad networks.
Posted May 2nd, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Congrats on your app launch guys! (i hope you’re getting enough sleep ;) )
Posted May 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
[…] I wrote before that Adobe’s Flash is overused – sometimes it’s the wrong technology for the job, and other times it’s the technology that drives the solution (not the problem). There is no doubt that many applications will be written with Silverlight, Flex, Apollo etc., because the technology exists and not because the problem can only be effectively solved with these products. For an illustration of the right way to develop, take a look at Ambassador Publications. They just launched an internet advertising platform built with Dojo, and because of its open-source, community based nature, Dojo is better as a result. […]
Posted May 6th, 2007 at 10:32 am
[…] Site Pen has been working with Ambassador Publications and have reported Ambassador Publications has announced a new Dojo-based app This looks very interesting and worth keeping an eye on. From a technical perspective, the platform was a significant challenge to build, with over 700K of JavaScript in a single-page application, over 50 different custom Dojo widgets, auto-save, auto-sync, and a custom server-side platform to integrate with the various ad networks and other business operations and third party services. […]
Posted June 10th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Is there a demo of this app somewhere available for viewing than just this screen shot?