With open source DutchPIPE software, web developers can make virtual multi-user environments. Each web page becomes an abstracted environment or location where visitors and other items on the page are visualized. This status is retained as visitors move around. A lot of real-time interaction is possible. The result: Persistent Interactive Page Environments. DutchPIPE uses AJAX and the DOM for the browser - it works without Java, Flash, plug-in or firewall adjustments. On the server, PHP 5 is used.
Some of the possibilities:
[INDENT]Social sites
Build visualized, real multi-user communities, fora and chat rooms. See your buddies wander around.
E-commerce and site assistant applications
Make easy-to-use product and shopping cart pages. Have automated and/or real person site assistants stand by to assist your customers and increase sales.
Game environments
From card games to virtual RPG worlds, DutchPIPE makes it possible.
User areas
Let people make their own "area" - pages, objects, actions, etc., without technical knowledge.
Site monitoring, 'snooping'
Track where people are going and what they are doing. Improve your processes. Be invisible, or run DutchPIPE invisible for visitors. Snoop visitors: see an exact copy of a visitor's browser window, including mouse movements. Beware of the privacy implications!
Developers platform extraordinaire
Persistent state, object-oriented building gives way to a whole new way of developing DOM web applications. In other words...
... Your imagination is the limit![/INDENT]
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