Cilux is an application for smartphones, mobile devices and PCs that brings the U-Web to life...
The U-Web is an ambitious project to create an open distributed platform for seamlessly and intuitively sharing, integrating and updating people, identities and profiles and their right-here, right-now mobile stuff:
People in phonebooks and on Facebook. Stuff like photos off the mobile camera and photos on Flickr. Personal messages, public Twitter updates. Videos, reviews, comments, news, meetup times, calendars and current map locations.
Merged and tracked as they change; the U-Web will magically shuffle and combine all this dynamic, interactive data around for you, according to the permissions you set.
A U-Web mobile application will merge these on- and off-device people, media, times and places in a single, seamless interface - with one map and one calendar.
The U-Web is an interactive 'mashup ecosystem' for people, media, times and places.
The U-Web has parallels (and considerable compatibility) with the Web:
Like the Web, the U-Web is based on open standards, meaning that all the above functionality can be implemented by many separate groups of developers. No-one will own the U-Web - or have to do all the work themselves! It will allow anyone to join in and offer interactive content - an unlimited ecosystem of mashups. Specifically, the U-Web has an open protocol and notation for peer-to-peer multicast data updates, rather than the Web's client-server document publishing.
The U-Web application is like a browser, except that, instead of a Web browser's essentially one-way static document viewing, it's a two-way interactive and dynamic data viewer meant for mashups and having both 2D and 3D as a native render. It will have a tactile, intuitive interface optimised for people, media, times and places, rather than for linear text. Unlike in the Web, in the U-Web, you, as a user of this application, are a first class dynamic entity, visible to others. Unlike a Web browser, the U-Web application will natively have access to all your machine capabilities such as PIM data, Media, GPS coordinates, accelerometer, vibration, telephony and camera.
See the U-Web site for more details about the U-Web.
Cilux is a U-Web "Exchange": a peer for the U-Web Mobile 2.0 platform. It is targeted at MIDs and smartphones with OpenGL ES 2.0, such as Maemo 5 and the Omnia HD. The above screen view will show Maemo or Symbian status bars, etc, not the Windows Mobile ones.
See the Cilux Maemo site for Cilux development information.