Cilux is a U-Web "Exchange": a peer for the U-Web Mobile 2.0 platform. It is targeted at mobile devices such as MIDs.
The U-Web is an interactive mashup ecosystem for people, media, times and places.
It's an ambitious project to create an open distributed platform for seamlessly and intuitively sharing, mashing and updating people 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; meetup times and map locations. Identities, videos, reviews, comments, news, statuses, calendars and current GPS are 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.
The U-Web has parallels (and considerable compatibility) with the Web:
Like the Web, the U-Web has an open protocol and notation, 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. The protocol and notation are for peer-to-peer multicast data rather than the Web's client-server documents.
The U-Web application is like a browser, except 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. In the U-Web, you, as a user of this application, are a first class entity, visible to others. The application will have access to all your machine capabilities such as PIM data, Media, GPS coordinates, accelerometer, vibration, telephony and camera.
Cilux will mash up these on- and off-device people, media, times and places in a single, seamless interface - with one map and one calendar.
Here's a mockup of what Cilux may look like. Of course, it will have Maemo, not Windows Mobile, status bars, etc.
See the U-Web site for more details about the U-Web.
See the Cilux Maemo site for Cilux development information.