The Kitchen Sink Weblog: Tales from Sun's internet facing edge

One of the reasons I named this blog KitchenSink is because the demo I've been writing about has a splash screen that shows a kitchen sink with silverware in it. The impression that you are supposed to get from the splash screen, is that this tool is a useful utility. You'll have to let us know if you "got it".

Project Alameda is not a product, it's an idea. We are showing it at JavaOne to get feedback about the direction it should take. Should it be a full featured consumer tool? Should we align it with JDS and have it feature a Java application catalog? Should we provide it as an SDK? We've put together four channels as a talking point.

There's a lot of interesting activity in this "rich clients that aggregate/parse the web" space. Mac enthusiasts know about Watson. For those of you that are corporate marketing news junkies, check out Rocket Desktop. A fellow Sun blogger, richb is looking for a RSS aggregator. There is definitely a need here, the browser doesn't always cut it and it's hard to find things on the web. Although if you are just looking for a RSS aggregator there are some browser based solutions (extension to Firefox).

Above is a sneak preview of one of the channels. It uses the Amazon APIs to present the Amazon products in a hierachy that you can browse, check out the prices and the reviews.

Come by the Swing and Java 2D pods to check it out and let us know what you think.

BTW, sorry for the change in looks again, sotto took up too much real estate