Woah, Scrybe!
While generally enthusiastic about new products, I am not that easily wowed. However, I just watched this video preview of Scrybe, a new kind of online organiser and wholy smokes, I am pretty impressed. Scrybe is only going into a public beta later this month, but if it delivers anything like the experience that they demonstrate in the video, it will be a winner. I won’t bore you with detailed descriptions, just watch the video.
What makes this potential product launch to interesting is, of course, the context of the recent sale of online calendar startup Kiko on ebay for $250k and the related blog post “The Kiko Affair” by YCombinator founder and LISPler Paul Graham that caused a lot of discussion in the online world. Essentially Paul says that Kiko never had a chance after Google Calendar (awesome btw) launched. This may be true, I don’t know. But what Scrybe could really demonstrate that there is still huge potential to innovate in any category, even something as seemingly “mundane” as organisers. So maybe if Kiko had come up with ideas like Scrybe, people would not have defected? Who knows.
October 9th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Holy smokes indeed. I love the fact that they’ll have offline access, right there in the browser. Will be interesting to see how they do that. G
October 10th, 2006 at 10:34 am
I would love to see something that lets me drop Outlook and still deal with meeting requests. The time zone stuff looks very interesting.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Their sites say a beta coming in October. 6 days left! Will it happen?
October 31st, 2006 at 8:25 am
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