“[P]erhaps the next generation of incremental innovation wraps an AJAX-enabled user interface around the service [YubNub] to really give the layman a true GUI Internet Operating System?”
Exactly. David, you’ve got some resources behind you – why not pay someone to take the command-line YubNub and make a GUI for it? I’m thinking a grid of customizable icons, each corresponding to a YubNub command of the user’s choice. Roll your mouse over an icon, type your search query, and click, and the results you want open up in another window. Expand the system to allow larger macros, and the piping together of results (especially well-formatted XML results) from webservice to webservice. Let users specify new icons that don’t take search queries – instead, they just open services like Writely or NumSum, perhaps with the user already logged in. Let people add icons that open locally stored programs to ease the transition to the webpage as OS – maybe you’ll need a Firefox extension for this one, but it’s entirely doable. Next, integrate local and online storage spaces, make them seamless. I’ve wrote about all of this before but it’s nice to see a VC see the next step in the process. How about it, David – want to throw a little exploratory capital behind the idea and try and get in on the WebOS future early?
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As both a VC and an entrepreneur, I am always looking for the right idea. Of course, extraordinary people behind something visionary make for a great potential investment. I would welcome a conversation with anyone working on a concept like this one.
G’day David! During the last four years I’ve been working on a similar concept and just launched a first [rough] prototype – http://favlog.com/ .
It’s got a long way to go and I’ve got a million ideas for it, but right now I’m focusing on getting an understanding of what the users want.
I know the product works – I have used it myself nearly every day for four years. I’m a web developer though… The exciting challenge is whether one can make it work for the common Internet user.
I’d love to hear your opinion.