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April 14, 2008
Central-ish AIR
Central-ish AIR: Fred Wilson, of "A VC" blog, likes AIR, but is seeking to bring together multiple services into a single window, sort of like the old Macromedia Central did: "The problem with AIR is that unlike Firefox, which allows for tabbed browsing, there is no way to launch one AIR client and get multiple services. I'd like to have Twhirl, AlertThingy, and Shifd (another cool AIR client) all running at the same time in different tabs." Comments point out that AIR is a way for developers to create standalone applications, rather than a way for consumers to remix application interfaces... a good read. But then I started wondering about AIR apps which combined different webpage interfaces already in existence, so that you make a "multi-tabbed" application from existing applications. Would that end up being like Pirated-Sites.com, though? We haven't really discussed reuse of interfaces created elsewhere by others. I'm not sure of this whole area... does this bring any thoughts to mind for you...?
Posted by JohnDowdell at April 14, 2008 12:11 PM