-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: +The U-Web +enables you to intuitively share, integrate and update your friends and your 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 map -location. +People, identities and profiles in your phonebook and your Facebook. Stuff like +photos off your mobile camera and photos on Flickr. Your personal messages, your public +Twitter updates. The videos, reviews, comments, news, meetup times, calendars and +current map locations of you and your friends.
-Merged and tracked as they change, for all participants in the U-Web. The U-Web will -magically shuffle and combine all this dynamic, interactive data around for you, -according to the permissions you set. +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 is an open distributed Mobile 2.0 platform; 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 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 +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. The protocol and notation -are for peer-to-peer multicast data rather than the Web's client-server documents. +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 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, +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. +
-Here's a mockup of what Cilux may look like. Of course, it will have Maemo, not Windows -Mobile, status bars, etc. -
-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.
-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. +See the Cilux Maemo site for +Cilux development information.