Friday, March 14, 2003


LCS's Haystack project has redone their site to include screenshots

and the promise of downloadable code. This looks like a very interesting project, comparable in some ways to Chandler. It looks like they are managing information using RDF so that they can do some inferencing. It also looks like they have found a way to us continuations in the user interface, replacing dialog boxes with UI continuations, which allows multiple UI contexts to be saved and returned to later.

[Ted Leung on the air]

This does look interesting. However, I'm disappointed to see it only for Windows and Linux and not MacOS X, but that could just be what they have working. It seems to be a Java application (Java 1.4), so I'm hoping that once it is downloadable, I can get it running under the newly released Java 1.4.1 for MacOS X.

I've only had a chance to browse the site. I like their discussion of e-mail and IM integration identifies a real issue. Though Mail and iChat interact in some useful ways, there is no integrated view of conversations across modalities, and I do find myself losing track of what sort of communication I used for what message.

P.S. You know you aren't dealing with a commercial product targeting the mainstream when UI continuations are touted as a feature.
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