For the “cyber nomad” (cyber-cafe frequenter), Jooce is a new web-based venture which aims to give:
Multi-network-chat – instant message your friends from your jooce desktop, no matter which IM client they use Instant file share – 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. This reminds me somewhat of Wallop, a kind of MySpace evolved. It’s probably important to remember that you or I might not be the target audience for this sort of thing. Generation Y (and later) eats up the sorts of features on offer by the bucket-load, and the not-so-tech-savvy of all ages could perhaps enjoy the way it brings together a lot of functionality into one manageable entity. Geeks like myself might prefer to use other disperate services that are potentially harder to use but offer extra functionality or features, and this can make it easy to pick holes in these sorts of things, but in reality I think there’s a lot to be said for this sort of thing. For one, having your music collection online (ignoring the issue of DRM for a second) would mean that you can hotdesk or visit a friend and not worry about where it lives. It’s one for the “coffee shop generation” perhaps.
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