Tuesday, May 13, 2008
When Web 2.0 meets Mobile 2.0
Yesterday we have announced a partnership with Laszlo. They are the leader in open source Rich Internet Applications (RIA), that is the fancy little apps that run inside a browser and make it look like a desktop. In a word, the Web 2.0 engine. Their target is consumers, via service providers (sounds familiar ;-)One of the apps they launched as a vertical is email, with contacts and calendar. This sounds familiar too... If you haven't tried the application, I would definitely recommend you do. They have a free service called goWebtop, which allows you to use their web email client to read your personal email on the web (via IMAP), and they just added a preview of their new calendar interface - which is the most beautiful calendar interface I ever seen (and I am picky, when it comes to user interfaces...).
They do not do collaboration and they do not offer a mail server, so they do not compete with companies like Zimbra, OpenXchange, Scalix or PostPath. They have "just" a web client. The match with us is easy to see. They bring the Web 2.0 experience to the consumers, we bring the Mobile 2.0 experience to the consumers - powered by advertising. Very very cool.
You'll hear more from this partnership soon...
Posted by Fabrizio at 07:35
1 Comments:
Raju Bitter said...
Very good news! I've been using OpenLaszlo for years and worked for Laszlo in 2007. It's an amazing company capable of building some of the best interfaces you'll find on the web.
I agree that Funambol and Laszlo are a good match. We are using Zimbra at the company I'm working for now, and compared to Laszlo Webtop and the mail application Zimbra feels clumsy and a bit out-dated.
Will be exciting to see the first results of this partnership in the next months...
