Up front disclosure: I am a software developer at Eluma.
And if you want, I have some beta invites here.
Everywhere I go I talk about the Eluma Desktop, and explaining all that it can do can take a little bit of time. So I started giving people the short version and directing them here, where they can get my own personal description of what it is that it does.
Eluma is an up and coming startup that offers a desktop tool (RIA) to collect, read, organize and share your web "stuff" and RSS feeds, as well as discover what others have publicly shared. On the sharing front, the cool thing is that you share things not only at the rate of 1 item at a time, like pretty much everything out there, but you can compose collections and share the entire thing at once. Even cooler, once you update the collection, everyone subscribed to it gets the update. At first when you collect an item, it is private, so you have to make it public to share it with others.
It is a revolutionary tool that makes it fast and easy to organize anything you could want to collect on the internet by giving you a repository on the desktop (fast) and a browser toolbar for collecting (easy). There is nothing like it in the market. In a much earlier incarnation, it was selected among hundreds of emerging technologies to participate in DEMO 2006, where it won the DEMOgod Award. According to Technology Review just recently:
TR10: Offline Web Applications
Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop.
In other words, desktop web applications are in the Technology Review Top 10 emerging technology in 2008. The Eluma Desktop runs on the desktop and is backed by a web server, which gives users the ability to log in from anywhere and access their data, as well as work offline. The tool also provides many web 2.0 features, such as the ability to share collections and tag, comment, and rate items in collections and the collections themselves. Most of these features are available right on the (IE or Firefox) toolbar. It provides organization capabilities via tags and also folders so as to maximize the range of user types.
If you try it and want to leave a comment, it will be very welcomed. We are working hard in directing the development of features in the way that will be useful to real consumers, not only to our little egos.
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