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Posted At : March 19, 2006 10:01 PM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
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NetJaxer is the first initiative I've seen to take Web 2.0 to the next level. It allows you to integrate your favorite Web 2.0 pages, such as gmail, writely, TadaList, Digg, etc... directly into your desktop. They use their own browser, which is fully Ajax compatible (so they say :).

Netjaxer is an easy way to integrate your favorite web apps into Windows. Create a desktop or quick launch icon. Load any web page when Windows starts and run it as a tray icon.

It will interesting to see what they come up with to make this more than a shortcut to a web site... mashups, gmail - tadalist with outlook could be one ...

posted on March 19, 2006 at 10:01 PM by Rob Gonda

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I was curious what browser this uses for it's engine, and it's IE:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
However, they do allow you to use your system default browser instead.

# Posted By Jacob Munson | 3/20/06 10:01 AM

Good to know you can use your default browser... IE unfortunately is still the most buggy out there, but they're doing a good job with IE7.

# Posted By Rob Gonda | 3/20/06 10:28 AM

You Windows junkies really should get out more often. Mac OS X has had the ability to do this kind of thing in any of several different ways for years. It's so easy I'm surprised it seems innovative on Windows XP:
1. You can drag URL's into your dock (the next generation "system tray" Mac users enjoy) and launch them directly if you want.
2. You can fill a folder with URL's, put the folder in the dock, and have a set of your favorite web 2.0 sites readily at hand.
3. Of course, you can put URL's directly on your desktop and launch them from there.
4. Dashboard widgets are essentially little tiny Ajax/DHTML applications, many of which contain interfaces to the best websites (Backpack, Google, Amazon, Delicious, gMail, etc etc) Widgets are nothing more than little web pages running on the open-source webkit rendering engine that fires Safari. I think Microsoft is going to try to copy this in Vista.
5. In a real browser like Firefox or Safari, you can put a bookmark full of your favorite websites into your bookmark bar and then have all of the sites launch in separate tabs when you load your browser. Voila! Instant best web 2.0 apps.
6. Heck, there are numerous hacks that let you run web pages directly on your desktop in Mac OS X if you want to.

Sorry to burst your bubble...

# Posted By Leland Scott | 3/22/06 6:26 PM

Wow, Are you kidding, OS X has had this function for about 5 years. By the way the default browser in OS X Safari, also has RSS feeds and OS X has Spotlight desktop search and smart folders for the desktop. So when Microsoft finally adds this features someday, do not get too excited, all it means is MS ic copying again and trying to catch up.

Check out OS X's Expose, this should really excite you. But do not woryy some third party guy has something for Windows that copies this OS X feature also!Years later, not as good.

# Posted By Stephen Antonucci | 3/31/06 6:32 PM

c'mon guys, we all agree about M$ being behind, not only with Windows, but office, the Xbox, and well, everything ... but this is not about M$ ... Thanks for the info though; appreciate it.

# Posted By Rob Gonda | 4/2/06 1:58 PM

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