CrossReader is still in closed beta, but it is a promising content discovery tool for tablet and mobile devices. It can find relevant content for the page you currently reading, suggest in a non intrusive manner and allow to preview it.
Microsoft just released a limited public preview of Deepfish.
"Deepfish is a new type of mobile information browsing experience, aimed at preserving the rich layout and full form of documents on mobile devices while providing novel ways of effectively navigating that content on small screens. Deepfish's unique interface enables you to zoom in and out of page, quickly getting to the areas you are interested in without screen length after screen length of scrolling. And because the layout is preserved, navigation menus, lists of search results or news headlines, and other elements that might have been bent so thoroughly to fit the usual single column layout that they were no longer legible can now be browsed simply and easily. A consequence of Deepfish's multi-resolution approach to browsing pages is that it loads a thumbnail of pages initially and then only what is needed for more detail when requested or in the background as you browse the initial the view, resulting in substantially quicker load times for most pages." [via Microsoft Live Labs]
To really understand what they are talking about check the demo.
The preview is available for download now for Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices. There are a limited number of slots available, and they will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
System requirements:
Device: Windows Mobile Smart Phone or Pocket PC.
Operating System: Windows Mobile 5.0+
Internet connection: Required.
For Desktop setup: NET Framework 2.0, ActiveSync 4.0+ or Windows Mobile Device Center(WMDC) for Vista.
Minimum Device Memory: 64MB Program Memory. Deepfish supports external storage when available.
First one is Zannel, that is currently in beta. They allow to view an share pictures and videos from mobile phones (wap enabled). The content can be viewed by the community and get voted.
"Create your own channel and broadcast it to friends and audiences everywhere." - sates their site.
Join Zannel beta launch and help to make Zannel into the best mobile sharing community it can be. Your input can make all the difference, so please let them know when you come across something that isn't working quite right. Just use feedback link on their pages to submit bugs.
They allow recording your self from their website with a simple webcam and share your "vlip" with the world. Others can reply to you with a their own "vlip", thus making it like an offline video conversation.
You can also embed any vlip in your site (link not working in Firefox, only IE) or just email it. Even the about is a vlip (see below). Leave them your feedback on this webpage, or use the link on their site if you are using IE (again no luck for Firefox users, like me).
