Jooce Beta Invite
Tonight I received my Jooce beta invite. If you have not heard of Jooce, it is a Web based virtual desktop. What this means is that it can be accessed from any Internet enabled computer. If that was all it offered, it wouldn’t provide too many advantages over similar offerings. Jooce goes a bit further, by providing both personal and public desktops. OK, so tell me about the features .
Features
- Multi-network chat - instant message your friends from your jooce desktop, no matter which IM client they use
- Instant file sharing - share files instantly with your friends just by dragging and dropping
- Youtube upload - upload your favourite YouTube videos to your jooce desktop and share them instantly with friends
- Public desktop - express yourself with your fully customizable public face on the internet
- Media player - play music, watch videos, create playlists
- File storage - secure online storage of all your files - accessible from any internet connection anywhere in the world.
You can customise both your personal and public desktops with a background image and your avatar. You can add all kinds of documents, files and videos to your desktop, as well as contact friends through the IM service that imports contacts from your AIM, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo accounts.
Jooce also has some cool animation when you switch between your personal and public desktop, see the image below.
Another feature that will appeal to the Web 2.0 social set is the ability to view and share other users public desktops. Being public, it is avaialbel to any other Jooce memeber. If you find something you like on someone else’s desktop, you can grab it by dragging it to your desktop icon, or right-clicking on it. This will also give you the option of downloading it to your own computer as well.
As i have said, I have only received my beta invite tonight, so haven’t had too long to evaluate it, but on features alone, it would seem to have some potential. The developers are working on more features, which should be good.
Don’t miss a thing, stay up to date with all the latest flogging news.
P.S, it is coming up to Flogger Friday again and I want to hear from you so go ahead and comment, or email me with all of your Flogger Friday entries.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
That effect used when switching between personal and public desktops looks to me like the same effect used in Ubuntu’s 3D effects package, Compiz Fusion, used when switching virtual desktops… Desktop Cube + Rotate Cube lets you zoom out from your desktop and rotate a cube of virtual desktops all around in any direction, then centering on whichever one you choose and it will zoom in to that desktop. It’s very nifty, indeed.
There are some pretty great videos on YouTube that show this and other effects that are possible. Just go and search for “Compiz Fusion”.
Thanks for the info on Jooce, I may look into it.