Enso lives on
Days after I lamented about Enso’s death, Atul posted a progress report, providing an overview of what’s been going on since open-sourcing Enso. I did suspect (and hope) that Enso was was, in fact, not dead – I poked around the code repostitory and browsed the developer’s forums and saw some healthy activity. I was glad to finally hear some direction for where the project is going. Enso is very much alive:)
While looking through the discussions, I came across a nifty Enso interface demo by Andreas Schuderer implemented in JavaScript. It’s a great example of “Show, Don’t Tell”.
Take a look to this web-2.0-thing inspired by Enso, called PodiPodi: http://www.podipodi.com
It’s a web gadget that web designers can add to their website and give their users a fast way to interact with the site and web services (google, yahoo, youtube…)
It’s still a developing project but looks interesting.
Thanks for the kind words about the demo! Since September, Enso’s heritage lives on in the Mozilla project Ubiquity.
http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/