Get indi baby!
Well, after a year of very hard work, we have finally entered a (limited, invitation-only) Beta for indi. What is indi? You can find out here: http://getindi.com. indi is our answer to folks who believe that you need to put all your stuff on their servers to gain anytime-anywhere access to it.
Technically indi combines a lot of the work I have done in Ruby such as FreeBASE (plug-in framework for the FreeRIDE IDE), Jabber4r and Alph (Ruby to Flash bridge) with the work I have been doing in Flash/ActionScript...specifically the ActionStep port of the OpenStep/Cocoa App Kit to Flash. This combination creates a cross-platform execution environment with Ruby as the data manager, and Flash for the UI.
indi runs on OS X and Windows right now, and as soon as Flash 8 is supported on Linux it will run there as well. indi is more like a platform than an application, and its going to allow us to give some really cool capabilities to our users and deliver on a vision we have of digital independence (reverse the two and you get in..di - indi).
Anyway, we have a busy schedule ahead to release our next Beta in about 4 weeks at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference.
indi sounds pretty interesting. I bounce between Linux and OSX machines at home and Windows boxes at school and I've wanted some way to be able to have all the data (including calendar) on my USB stick easily accessable from all three without needing to install different executables for each platform (yuk!).
Posted by: Phil | Monday, February 27, 2006 at 03:44 AM
Wow! I just found out about Indi. Outstanding concept. Is it too late to get an invitation to the beta program?
Thanks, Mark
Posted by: Mark | Sunday, August 20, 2006 at 01:35 AM