Un-beknown to her until later! Adriana invited me to join this very funky new virtual web desktop called Goowy. I have to say I was a little sceptical at first because it is all flash! Not so good if you are on a low bandwidth pc I though... but it seems to be pretty good and easy to use interface wise on the high bandwidth version. The features on it at the moment are a little limited. They consist of search, blogs, e-mail sync, weather, shares... all those very web things that Google etc are trying to do on their personalised web searches. But the difference here is that this particular one has a very Apple-esque style of interface with the possibility of extending into word, excel, powerpoint style stuff and so much more. I quite like it.
I think this company is one of the up and coming newbies and I wish them well. I can see it having a place with virtual mobile desktops and being used for people on the go and out of the office regularly if the right tools are provided. Overall I would like to see more from this company. I like their direction and I can see the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Google or maybe even HP being interested in it!
Something this company need to be aware of is that people don't appreciate being spammed about it though. Be warned, remember to Un-Tick the inform contact about Goowy. It spams them totally! This is unfortunate because other than this I was pretty impressed. I would suggest to Goowy that they change this and let you tell people yourselves or make it easy to blog about it instead! I mean come on, who wants to spam all their mates? Not I says I!
*UPDATE: Fixed Goowy link URL!*
posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:09 AM