The main feature, so to speak, of Moblin is the home screen - known as "m_zone". Here you can launch your favourite applications, see your calendar items, to-do list and your recently visited sites. The far right side of the screen is dedicated to social networks, and here you get updates from sites like Last.fm and Twitter. (In case you want to follow my ramblings, you can sign up here.)
There are options for synchronizing your data - such as calendars - with several services, but none of them were familiar to me. I hope to see support for some of the services I currently use (Google's/Plaxo's/Yahoo's services) eventually. Luckily you can get to the data in a browser, but if the calendar etc. won't be used it would be better to have the option to dedicate them to other data.
Generally the m_zone is a great idea. It gives you an overview of what matters to you in a simple and fairly consistent manner, but there is clearly room for improvement. For instance I'd like to be able to dedicate more room to updates from social networks and less room (if any) to recently visited sites. In fact I think that if I want any sites there at all, they should be entirely configurable, so I can have my daily sites ready for clicking rather than what I've happened to visit the most recently.
It would also be good if you could always see the text/user in updates from social networks. It may look slightly less cluttered, but having to hold my mouse over a widget to see what I want to know will kill the functionality for me - resulting in me just logging into the various sites to see updates listed in full.
More impressions to come...
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Saw Moblin on YouTube recently as well. Checked out the webpage and found this:
SvarSlethttp://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-netbook-intro/show-me-how-connect-stuff/setting-web-services
However, after some digging it seems that Last.fm and Twitter are perhaps the only web services you can set up. There's not a comprehensive list. Most importantly, support for syncing Google Calendar/Contacts/Email is missing, which makes Moblin unusable to me.
It looks nice and is a good idea, but needs more broad support for web services (or at least the services I want to use :P )
I think you'll see us making myzone more reactive over time. We're not massive fans of configuration, but reactivity to use is very important.
SvarSletAs for web services and sync. The range of providers we currently support is somewhat limited - however if more people wrote mojito plugins etc. then it'd certainly grow quickly.
We're currently testing Google SyncML contacts Sync - the Calendar sync is too buggy and needs a fair bit of work before we can use it.
Google Calendar sync would be most welcome. If I can use Google Calendar, that will sync back to Plaxo and keep the rest of my devices in sync.
SvarSletm_zone should also support RSS feeds from subscribed sites.
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