I noticed that you had written on Nivio.com so thought you may be interested to know that Nivio is running a private beta of new features prior to full launch.

Beta registration is at:

http://www.nivio.com/Registration.aspx

If you register and let me know the user ID you select i’ll get you activated on the beta.

Best regards

Allan Edwards
Chameleon PR.

It’s not very webcentric though, is it?
If you think the web is good for anything at all, it’s worth evolving, and when this happens, the issues adressed comes into play.

Yeah, why? Your typical Mac comes with all the Unix goodies and goodness you could ever need. But there are a bunch of Linux PPC distributions that you can, if you feel the urge, install on your Apple hardware.
If you’ve been alive the last coup…

But in a sense, it’s the exact same damn thing!

Xindesk is NOT meant to be the equivalence of a pc/desktop or remote desktop, it’s supposed to resolve a web application development issue.

When you develop an application like an email app, you will hit a certain point when it’s more logical to spawn a completely new app, rather than further litter the interface with more functions that stray more and more away from the core functionality, and therefor confusing the apps primary focus.

Like a calendar or whatever.

It would be nice if I could open this new app from the said email app, since it’s spawned from it, and if these two apps could interact seamlessly with eachother, exchanging their data back and forth, without much of an effort from me as a developer.

The user also might want to toggle the two apps in a way that I haven’t predicted..but that’s ok.
They are infact free to custimize their workflow any way they please becasue of this shared enviroment, without causing me too much of a headache as a developer.

This is the whole point of ‘windows’ anyway.
That’s why window systems relying on iframes totally blows.

In this shared enviroment, I can perform this party-trick over and over, making the enviroment a pleasently unified experience – albeit being completely webcentric, focusing on tasks not related to what one would associate with a local pc.

Please, couldn’t someone just kill the “webos” tag already, it’s long overdue, and it’s not the point of the new generation of web software anyway.
This time, they appeared because there is a real problem in the background that’s being adressed.

The funny part is that the user might not immidiatly benefit from this, they will just get this cool but partly pointless desktop, it’s the development behind that actually benefits, but in the longer term, that will pay of for the user getting better apps for a cheaper price.

This is an evolvment responding not so much to the user, but to what the guys behind need to respond to the user.