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What am I up to?
- John Oxton
- Sat Jun 17, 04:22 pm
I have been wanting to tell people what I am up to for quite a while. For a fair few months now I have been working as the HTML and CSS monkey alongside an amazing bunch of people on a mission to build a substantial web app. Finally, I can tell you more, with the official press release below.
SAN FRANCISCO— SUPERNOVA 2006 CONFERENCE, TOP CONNECTED INNOVATORS –June 21, 2006– In advance of its September launch, the team at ATTAP Technologies is previewing LifeIO, a new “life-organizer” application. LifeIO lets you integrate your messaging, contacts, calendar, photos, video, shopping, and more in a highly personalized environment. LifeIO connects you to your world from one central place, putting you in control of what you see, what you share, and what you do online.
LifeIO is the brainchild of ATTAP Technologies, Inc., a New York City-based developer of web-based software aimed at giving people more of what they want from the Internet. "In a new kind of connected world LifeIO is a new kind of application, a life organizer, that integrates and consolidates Personal Information Management, Communication, Ecommerce and Social Networking." says Bruce Spector, founder & CEO of ATTAP Technologies, Inc.
Integration and Relevance
LifeIO is your portal to the world, a place to coordinate everything from your messaging, contacts, and email to your calendar, shopping, and media. From your personal LifeIO page, you can access everything you do online—and most of what you do off-line—from one central place, accessible from anywhere. LifeIO lets you move seamlessly between chats, messages, events and purchases, all the while letting you stream in any information you want—weather, stock prices, sports scores, news, videos, and more. LifeIO allows you to integrate and coordinate your life. You can:
- Put an event from any e-mail account straight into a calendar, and put any event into an email.
- See and search the content of any combination of several email accounts, instant messaging accounts, calendar events, notes and to-do’s in a central inbox.
- Share your calendar with friends and family, colleagues, or the public with various privacy settings.
- Save all your information and attachments with a large online storage component—maintain an online personal history.
- Create and share shopping wish lists in several categories and from several retailers, and comparison shop for the best prices.
- See your flickr photos and YouTube videos right next to your inbox.
- Organize a meeting with just a few clicks—no more long email strings to get people together.
User control and Personalization
LifeIO puts you in control—this is your life, your way. See only what you want to see in your inbox. Share only what you want to share and only with whom you want to share it. And count on high levels of security to protect your information. As you tell LifeIO what you like and don’t like, you can choose to receive recommendations for events, shopping, news and more. You can be notified of information from sources you choose and let LifeIO work for you—track your packages, get movie showtimes, check the weather, see your contacts’ shared calendars, and more, all without leaving your LifeIO homepage.
Jitsu
The team at ATTAP Technologies is previewing Jitsu, a new web-development framework. Jitsu is an open source user interface toolkit that enables developers to build and deploy sophisticated user interfaces for web applications. Jitsu tools include an XML markup language, a page compiler, a client-side data binding engine, JavaScript runtime, control library, animation engine, cross-platform library, and Ajax support. Jitsu applications use DHTML and run in most modern web browsers.
What Makes Us Different? Jitsu is the first open source web toolkit to offer a compiled XML markup language and a rich client-side data binding engine:
- XML markup language. Jitsu's XML user interface markup is based on XHTML and will appeal to designers. "In Web applications, design is extremely important" says Bruce Spector, Founder & CEO of ATTAP Technologies, Inc. "We were unsatisfied with other web toolkits because the only way to use them is by writing code. The XML markup in Jitsu means designers can contribute without learning JavaScript."
- Client-side data binding. Jitsu's codeless client-side data binding engine is another first. Data binding separates the application data model from how it is presented to the user. "With data binding, design iterations happen more quickly," says Bruce Spector. "so you can really focus on getting the user interaction right."
- Open Source. ATTAP Technologies is pleased to contribute a preview version of Jitsu to the open source community. "Our primary goal is to create web-based software that gives people more of what they want from the Internet" says Bruce Spector. "By releasing Jitsu as an open source project, we're hoping that other companies will jump in to make the web better."
About ATTAP Technologies, Inc.
ATTAP Technologies, Inc. (All Things to All People) is a New York City-based software development company that is building a series of Preference Expression and Management applications. ATTAP was founded by the same team that founded WebCal, maker of the first web-based Personal Information Management system acquired by Yahoo!, Inc. in 1998 (now called Yahoo! Calendar). ATTAP is dedicated to developing applications that will give users control of and easy access to the information, people, products, and services that they want and need, based on their own preferences and the preferences of other users like them, rather than receiving information that vendors and marketers choose to deliver. Current ATTAP ideas include LifeIO (www.lifio.com), Riffs (www.riffs.com), PersonalDNA (www.personaldna.com), and BuzzVote (www.buzzvote.com).