Onfolio
March 20, 2004
Allaire founders J. J. Allaire and Adam Berrey emerged this week with a new company and a new product, Onfolio. The premise of Onfolio is directly on-target—one of the primary uses of the Web is research—and the new product is designed to help users collect, catalog, organize, and share the information they find on the Web. My initial take on the product is that it adds a lot of value to this important process.
More than a shortcuts organizer, Onfolio allows you to collect and organize Web pages, snippets of Web pages, documents—in short, anything you can cut and paste or save in whole, such as PDFs and office documents. What is potentially much more valuable here is that you can usefully share and publish the results. In addition to the obvious features such as “share this link” or “share this collection of links,” Onfolio allows you to publish your results as email, Web pages, and even RSS feeds.
The initial release of the product is closely tied to Microsoft. The installation works only on Windows XP, 2000, and 2003, and works best with Internet Explorer. However, it looks as if there is enough publishing flexibility to allow users to create generically useful HTML and RSS.
I will be trying it over the next few weeks and will report on it. I am going to start by collecting and organizing some current research I am doing on eForms.
Posted by Bill Trippe at March 20, 2004 2:58 PM
