DEMOfall: The Connected Desktop
Another social networking tool. Clients private label the application. Bookmarks, blogs, podcasts, and other content are pushed to users. Community of users can comment, rate, etc.
Initial Reaction: Users have to run a separate app window for this. Also, they pretty much have to choose only one provider that they want to use here (otherwise their desktop would look absurd). So if the Red Sox provided one and TheStreet.com provided one, I'd either have a mess on my hands or would have to choose in an either/or scenario. This also reminds me of apps from 10 years ago that seemed to fade away because they went outside the browser.
A tool for families. Includes calendar, shopping list, message board, photo album. Can get a shopping list or calendar items on your cell phone.
Initial Reaction: I think there's room for a product like this, but I'm not convinced this is the answer today, though it may yet evolve.
A last minute addition to the agenda. Mobile smartphone music service. Streams from their servers as Internet radio or from the user's own music library. The demo had the music playing over an EVDO network.
Initial Reaction: The sound and clarity was impressive. I've been playing a lot with music services this year (ironic since I'm not really a music junkie, but my tastes when I do listen are off-beat enough that Internet services really appeal to me) and with different devices (I now listen to music on my PC using MTV's Urge and Rhapsody, and have a Sonos system, an iPod Nano, an iPod Mini, a Clix, and a Gigabeat). Even with all that, I don't yet know enough to offer a good opinion on this one and the demo since it was pulled together at the last minute didn't provide enough info to really assess it.
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