The first embodiment of awareness software, enabling personal dashboard is Konfabulator (http://www.konfabulator.com) working on the Apple Mac.
With konfabulator, one is able to add small widgets on the Apple Mac desktop. A widget may be provide display and processing for
· Time & Date: a clock, a calendar…
· News Feed: aggregate RRS news feed…
· System Utilities: Disk space and computer monitoring…
· Sight & sound etc…
This is a clock which is displayed directly onto the desktop
This is a shlashdot (an open source community web site) RSS news aggregator
Those widgets have declarative XML based part and have a programmatic part based on JavaScript.
Apple Mac included an analog framework to its latest version OS 7.
Konfabulator is now a free Yahoo product which runs on Mac and PC.
Another company, Serence created a more extensive framework, named Klipfolio (http://www.serence.com/site.php ), including a more sophisticated GUI framework plus alarming function and also a cache mechanism. As with Konfabulator, the Klips (the widgets for Serence) are also defined with a XML header and some JavaScript part. Serence KlipFolio runs on Windows. Serence business model is to tune its tool to fortunes companies. GE is likely to use the Serence framework.
This is Serence Klipfolio Dashboard. Each Klip emits a sound if the alarm condition is meet (may be just new data coming) and blink to attract attention.
On mouse over, the klip expands. Here one can see the content of an RSS feed
On mouse over an RSS item, one can watch the content.
Clicking enables to open the web browse to the news hyperlink
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