eBay and AOL launch AIR applications

A couple of companies are releasing AIR applications today. eBay's San Dimas project, what I consider to be the original AIR application, was finally released today at desktop.ebay.com. AOL also released a Top 100 application. It grabs some of the top music videos and then provides a very cool, desktop experience around that content.

I'm really excited to see how the eBay application does. It was one of the first applications out there and eBay is obviously a huge web property. Because they've got a lot of web skills and a lot of web infrastructure, I think AIR was a natural fit for their entry into the desktop world. It's kind of cool to see the desktop.ebay.com URL and know it's using AIR.