There is a lot of interesting stuff happening with respect to technology and innovations online. I have listed down some of the new launches that sound both innovative and promising. I am following the progress of these right now.
Gritwire presents an easy way to customize real-time text and multimedia ‘SpeedFeeds’ by providing updates on the things you want to see and hear. It does so by leveraging the latest in internet content syndication technologies (RSS, OPML) and the explosive power of social networking (such as Friendster, MySpace, and Facebook). The site acts as a central place for aggregating and customizing the content according to your needs, and then have it delivered to your desktop through a Gritwire Deskbar. The site itself has a very neat and ajax-based interface.
Gollum is a demonstration of what all can be done with AJAX. Gollum is an open-source, web app built in AJAX that minimizes Wikipedia to the simplest interface: a toolbar, a search bar, and the article. The presentation of the articles is also enhanced, with bigger headings and shifting the category list to the top of the page. Features include a bookmarking facility, ability to send e-mail links of the article as recommendations, and the Print button. However, I agree with other users about the lack of tabs as a big drawback for this interface.
Songbird is the latest innovation from the developers of Winamp and Yahoo Music Engine. According to the site, ‘Songbird is built atop the Mozilla Foundation’s XULRunner platform also used by the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client and other desktop applications. Songbird runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux personal computers with few OS-specific tweakages.’ The project is still in alpha, and looks like a promising digital media player. Songbird Public Preview v0.1 codename Hilda, will be released mid-December 2005.
Gagan,
If you like following new technology I think I have something that may interest you and the readers of your blog:
http://looklater.com
It allows you to create instant searchable bookmarks with a single click into a private archive. Context around the link, page or image is automatically saved. You can then post bookmarks to del.icio.us or other social bookmarking sites or use other tools to see the Google cache, lookup the title on Amazon, etc.
There is a flash demo of how to bookmark and a demo archive to see how you can use your bookmarks — both are on the main page.
Its pretty cool, but yes I’m a little biased since I wrote it. Check it out if you get a chance.
Thanks,
- Doug Martin
Hi Doug,
I scanned through the site and the app looks interesting. I am going to try it out for a few days and shall post my comments here. Thanks for telling me about it.
Have a great day :-),
Gagan.
The link doesnt work
Hi Sanjay! Which link is not working? Everything in this post seems to be working fine at my end :-). However, in case you were referring to the Escapa! game, then yes that page seems to have been removed. I have removed the post as well.
Gagan,
Thanks for the nod. I usually try to keep on top of who has noticed us but we’ve been scrambling toward launching our new version. We’ve pulled the beta tag, but as a new launch I’m sure there’s bugs we could use help finding.
Look forward to any feedback.
-Ian