Dart, for the uninitiated, is a web programming language Google developed, and revealed last year at the GOTO conference. “At Google we’ve written our share of web apps, and we’ve tried in many ways to make improvements to that development process, short of introducing a new language,” Google says on the official Dart site. “Now we think it’s time to take that leap. We designed Dart to be easy to write development tools for, well-suited to modern app development, and capable of high-performance implementations.”

DartBox2D is actually the result of Google’s “20% time” culture.

“Box2D has been ported to other languages, including JavaScript, but this release opens the door to Dart becoming a language for games on the web, which, as we all know, is what the web is really for (that and pictures of cats, of course). The work was started by two interns at Google, Greg Bigelow and Ahmed Hussein, continued by Joel Webber, and finished up by Dominic Hamon,” says Hamon, part of Google’s “Make the Web Faster” team.

“DartBox2D is a straight port from the Java version and isn’t yet using all of the great features the Dart developers have built into Dart, but moving forward it will become a template for how to write great Dart code,” he adds. “The ease with which this port was developed speaks to the great job the Dart team have done with the language.”

So far they’ve created the following demos:

BallCage
Bench2D
BlobTest
CircleStress
DominoTest
DominoTower

A Google Group has been created for discussion of Dartbox2D.

DoubleClick says the exchange platform automates the media request for proposal (RFP) process using data exchange between DART Sales Manager (DSM) and DART for Advertisers’ media planning tool. In conjunction with the automated platform, DoubleClick has released an adapter for data exchange between DSM and Salesforce CRM. The company built the platform on application agnostic standards and worked with the IAB to establish a standard for electronic order exchange.

A majority of ad agency clients still handle media requests for proposals and the contract process manually via email, spreadsheets and faxes. The chief concern among clients was seeming lack of internal coordination at publishers and inaccurate proposal responses. Google and DoubleClick think their automated process will help solve that, answering over 70 percent of survey respondents’ desire for an automated way of handling these transactions.

Twenty publishers are testing the new platform, which eliminates the need to manually enter proposals into MediaVisor in addition to their own system. DoubleClick says this will reduce errors and save time. Once publishers receive a request via MediaVisor, they can check inventory, build a proposal and respond electronically.