mybooo is a recently launched virtual desktop of sorts, which revolves around a series of applications and widgets. The idea behind mybooo is to grant easy and remote access to all your favorite sites and applications. From chat to document-creation tools, mybooo is aiming to create a service around which the bulk of your Internet activity can revolve.
Specifically for website updates, mybooo works by connecting your virtual desktop with the web so that you don’t have to be on an open browser in order to receive these updates. So far mybooo supports all the major site players, including social networks like Facebook. You’ll be alerted to any website updates, in essence, enabling you to get alerts about your Facebook alerts! There are other limited options for setting up custom website alerts, which so far supports RSS feed updates.
mybooo also has widgets, which basically act as desktop applications in their own right, within this virtual desktop environment. As many of these widgets are powered by third party applications, mybooo operates as a startpage in this manner, granting quick and easy access to a variety of customizable services and products. Lastly, mybooo has some bookmarking options that are similar to Evernote in that you can sync desktop content with your mybooo virtual desktop. While this particular feature isn’t complete, the company is working on full sync options and currently has sync capabilities for other bookmarking sites like Delicious.
Another upcoming feature is the ability to redistribute content in a simplified manner, spreading it from one site to another. Looking at mybooo’s current format, I imagine the company would like to provide this feature to users without the need to open a web browser at all.
Competing with an array of established methods of organizing, accessing and sharing information, from Evernote to Flock, mybooo is combining many of these methods to create a new thought process around individual and social web needs. mybooo has a long way to go in this regard, but the company is off to an interesting start.