Oddpost

This service provider was just in the news thanks to the fact that it was taken over by Yahoo!. Alas I can not try it out, due to the fact that it has closed all new account request. So I have to read the documentation. It says it is a web-based email application with built-in news- and RSS-reader. The interesting thing is here the word web-based. When you look at the user interface, it just looks like a normal (Windows-)application, but it is still called web-based. And that is because they use DHTML within a normal application. It still sounds like a normal email application. It does sound line an interesting innovation. Amazed that such an innovation is still possible in email-space. Marc Canter calls this a Rich Internet App (RIA), maybe it should be called a Internet Enabled Application, which uses Web-Services.