Month: October 2005

So yesterday I discovered SWANilicious (sorry, Sun employees only) .
SWANilicious is Sun’s internal implementation of de.lirio.us, an open source equivalent to the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us.

Of course, having used the Firefox del.icio.us post plugin for quite some time I wasn’t really willing to go back to using a javascript based bookmarklet to add links to SWANilicious.

So I took apart del.icio.us post and changed it into SWANilicious post.

So I’m proud to announce SWANilicious post version 0.1.
Download it here.

I’ll be working in the near future to make this a more generic de.lirio.us posting extension, but it seems to work fine for now.

Right now the levels of curiosity have been driven sky high into what will be announced by Google and Sun later today.

Both external and internal to Sun at least.

My money?
I place it on something along the lines of Google Sound/Music Search.

A kind of music referral service, if you will – “the software likely wouldn’t be sold separately, but instead be added onto its servers” and resold to the Napsters and iTunes of this world. The theory fits in with Jonathan Schwartz’s software service and delivery ideas, although not very tightly.

But that’s just a guess.

We’ll see.