At the Asia Web 2.0 conference last week, there was this one startup running around showing their site. The product they were showing around was GownFull, otherwise pronounced as Kung Fu. It looked like a pretty neat service/tool.

It’s a pretty simple concept, take Input Method Editor (IME) available as part of the Microsoft Windows OS or other third party software that are dependent on a specific computer and free it so you can use it anywhere (with a browser and internet connection). The tool utilizes bookmarklet so all you need to do is go to their website and drag their link into your browser’s bookmarks toolbar and you are ready to input your language (only Chinese is available now) in any website.

The system is built using AJAX along with PHP and still early in the development phase so their demo has limited functionality, such as, certain Chinese input method works better than others, layering issues with CSS, and only Chinese and Greek are available at the moment.

This can become a very handy tool for many and hope to see more languages be implemented real soon.

Possible related posts:

  • Hello Angus,

    I am the core developer of Gown Full (the thin boy demonstrating our ajax IME with his big notebook in Web 2.0 conference, you might have remember me). I feel excited when I see your report on our IME because our work have attracted some people attention. When your report is shown on your blog, I started to search in Google and I found that many bloggers started discussing our IME. You help us a lot. Thank you very much.

    Wong Hang.
blog comments powered by Disqus

Top Tags

100-Asia aNobii Apple Asia Asia-Web-2.0-Conference BarCamp beansbox blog Bullpoo China community Conference Connecting-Your-World EditGrid entrepreneur event flickr Fon Frenzoo Funding Google Hong Kong Interview iPhone Jijija Lifesterblog Meebo meetup o2con Office-2.0 OpenWebAsia Recruit.net Red-Herring social Social Media Social Network South Korea startups unconference Web Web 2.0 WiFi workshop Yahoo Zendesk

 

Add to Netvibes

Add to Technorati Favorites