Soroush Javidi

Something that I had found some time ago was SSB applications. SSB stands for Site Specific Browser, and is basically an Internet browser dedicated to a single website. For example, You could have an SSB on your desktop, which when you double-click, takes you directly to your email account (say, Gmail), and no where else. It's not meant for surfing the Internet, but dedicated to one website that you frequent.

I'm not a big user of SSBs, I use one for Remember the Milk and now recently Splitweet. I use Fluid.app on Mac, and Mozilla's Prism on Ubuntu Linux. With Fluid, you can assign an icon to your SSB, which then shows up in the Finder and the Dock, should you put it there.

The new version of Plaxo (Plaxo 3.0) was announced some weeks ago, with syncing capability across multiple applications (e.g. MS-Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, etc.). Syncing includes contacts, – which is what Plaxo was doing initially – notes, tasks and calendar items. So far so good, but what can we do with it? Well, let me describe the problem...