WWWRAAL - a Web 2.0 start up on a quest to change the web experience

Tags been around for some time now, at least in the current form. They have not evolved that much and they are not quite doing the job we need them to. Since we are pushing the envelop on data amount, believe us even google will look a bit pale when we are up and running, tags is not enough. In its current state/form at least. So we have to bring tags on steroids to this party.

Problem is; we don´t yet know what that is. So right now, we are not able to tell what a wwwraal-tag is. But it sure is something that will make you say; Oh, wow, why didn´t I think of that.

This just might be the most understated problem of the internet today. Search Engines do not know anything, at least if you look at the biggies (g, y!, l). They just serve a reply which is calculated in a way they can´t explain because it´s their secrets.

So how will I as a user ever be able to related to that reply?

The only thing I can do is start using some arbitrary “algorithms” in my head. Like; “oh, that looks creditable”, “I think I remember that site” “wasn´t that the article I got a tip about from my friend”

wwwraal is not just the solution to this major flaw of search, it´s the service that will bring you, the user, back in the driving seat.

Some of us are the type of people that keeps things in order and some of us aren´t. It´s as simple as that. I´m not one of them i.e. the everything-in-order-people. My physical desktop is a mess and my computer folder structure is a mess. From time to time I take the bull by the horns and tidy it up, but then, a month later. Same mess. So, wwwraal need to take care of this.

Our services will be something people use everyday for years to come. There will be a decent amount of data to keep track of, not super-amounts, but still. Automation is a must. Just think about it; somebody who constantly keep tidying up behind you. For each day you mess it up that somebody will spend your sleeping hours to put everything in order again.

Well, a touch of Utopia of course, but we will take order to a new level in areas where people really have problems today. Well, keep tuned and we will enlighten you.

I sitting on my commuter train, with my Turbo 3G modem. It feels a bit 1995 trying to connect to the internet via the good old telephone icon on my Powerbook. But, hey, from 14.4 kbits over the phone line to 1.5 mbits over the mobile network in a bit over ten years, thats nice. So what will wwwraal bring to this party? A lot we hope.

Being mobile has its ups and downs, coverage is a bit so so, bandwidth is not what we are getting used to over the wlan at home and those thirty seconds to connect feels like forever. (and acctually, I was supposed to post this yesterday, but got no connection). For our returning readers you know that wwwraal always claims to have some revolutionary technology solving a bunch of issues of the web experience and of course we also have something in store for mobile user.

As always we can´t get in to the specifics, but we can assure you that a thing called ACP will really change your surf patterns and the user experience of mobile computing.Thanks for now and stay tuned.

We are coding. A couple of thousand hours left before we are close to our great vision. New ideas always in the heads of our super creative crew. Focusing on existing development is a Must. Anyone who thinks the idea and vision of a new product or service is the hard thing to come up with are so wrong.

The realization and keeping that first enthusiasm up for 1000, 2000, 4000 hours. Thats the hard part.

We are in a wonderful part of development. The features are getting in to the GUI and we are able to start using the stuff we have invented. Bugs is something that is out of focus and developing as much as possible is in focus. To all of you developers and visionaries out there, keep up the good work!

From top to button:

• Del.icio.us
• wwwraal plug-in (very beta)
• Google toolbar
• Facebook

My guess is that I´m not the most plug-in addicted guy on the internet, but it´s getting a bit tight. Fact is my plug-ins plus tabs is using some 150 pixels of the 930 pixels i got for the web on my 20 inch Cinema Display. We really need to re-consider the usage of plug-in or at least find an alternative for users who just can´t stand another.

But still; if you want to really start changing the way people use the internet, the presence in the browser might just be a pre requisite… or at least we thought so for a while… Since we are working in the infrastructure of the internet, far from the web layer, we can add stuff to the UI that will make some huge differences in what people expect from a site.

The interaction will be driven by the users with tools and services developed by wwwraal.com and third parties using our APIs. Sounds fun? You bet!

I´ve never been much of a book consumer and since my son came in to my life the the amount of books I finished sure has not increase. So I was thinking about books and pages as a metaphor for websites and webpages. Have you ever considered how many pages there are in your library? No, I thought not. It´s not very relevant is it? Same thing; have you ever considered the number of books you have. Well, some of you might raise your hands, books are nice and a lot of books are even nicer.

So now; can you tell me about your 10 favorite books? I´ll bet you can! Why; I would guess it´s because you like them, based on quality of content of course.

So, to come to something resembling a conclusion, it´s not the number of pages, it´s not the number of books. It´s all about quality of content, the author, the mood you were in etc etc. But still, you keep your other books around, because they look nice and you never know… someday…

The question is at first looked upon as a joke, and it might just be. If so, the answer is: really, really HUGE… like awesome! But you could twist it to something interesting. A lot of research on web usage today points to the fact that people are limiting the number of sites in their “use portfolio”. Some report says 10 top sites, some says 100. Lets say it´s 50; wouldn´t it be nice to get easier and better access to them then a mediocre access to all 8 billion pages?

wwwraal is about creating a new web layer on top of the existing and take it from there. The impact on search, content quality, criticism of source and efficiency for the users, single or communities, will be beyond your imagination.

I don´t know about you, but there are basically two main ways for me to search. One is when I know what and where to find the information, but I cant remember the website domain and the other is when I´m kind of researching and just want to know what´s out there. Today, when I turn to Google all they can give me is:

• The whole internet as data source
• Some smart algorithms to provide relevancy and quality by applying page rank
• And a timeline that is from the first to the last site they have indexed, based on information like create date and when the googlebot crawled the site

But what happens when we add the fact that you KNOW that the hit you are looking for exists? You know you have visited the site, you know the content is what you are looking for, you know the author is trustworthy etc. In other words: You don´t want to search the web, you just want to find that page! Stay tuned and wwwraal will deliver on this dilemma! 

Well, it should not require a rocket engineer to figure out that wwwraal is a combination of “www” and “graal”. We are all great Monty Python fans of course, but that´s not why. The Holy Graal is supposed to bring eternal life to whomever drinks from it. And that is what wwwraal is all about; eternal life!<br><br>It will change the way we look at web content and how we evaluate it, from many perspectives; its correctness, its life-time, its source, its relation to other content etc.