RIA’s have been popping regularly since the beginning of the year on more and more sites. I have found that most RIA segment into the following categories: Rich Media, Product Selection, Visual Search, Widget Builders and Forms & Data Visualizers. Since the release of Silverlight 2.0 (BETA) and Adobe Flex 3.0, designers and engineers have the professional grade tools and adoption of the technology. The results are the increase in creative practical use of RIA .
RIA Categories:
Rich Media: High resolution images, vidoe and audio, deep zoom
Product Selection: Intuitive Category Selection, Product Detail & Shopping
Visual Search: Taking search beyond text. Various manners to search the web
Widget Builders: Specific functionality including and social tools & publishing
Forms & Data Visualizers: Data entry forms, maps, graphs, calculators
Kyte TV
National Hockey League (NHL) TV
HardRock Café Memoribilia
Verizon Wireless Ringtones
Borders Magic Shelf
Pizza Hut
SearchMe
SproutBuilder
WIX
Flex Google Map
EarthBrowser
Etrade Retirement Calculator
