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Anand said:

I had used Avantgo a few years back downloading maps from mapquest onto my Palm Tungesten T. And this seems pretty much the same for any kind of a system; really surprised such an idea would be funded as part of Web 2.0! I agree that this seems a sort of backward step. Sometimes you get the feel of a bubble again and gosh, is that scary.

Wai Yip Tung said:

I’d like to tout my project MindRetrieve (http://www.mindretrieve.net/). It caches and allow you to search and retrieve all the web pages you’ve read (on top of other goodies like a fusion of tag and hierarchical based categorization system). Right now it save a strip down version of webpage. A version that save the full web page (with images) is coming soon. And this is open source.

As of this being backward, as a laptop nomad I can say the world is far from perfectly connected. Otherwise I won’t pay $20 a month just to get connectivity in Starbuck, a place otherwise won’t go much. Even if a few years down the road municipal WIFI become common place it will still have its utility. The main idea is you are searching your personal web, thigns you’ve seen but not the entire web in general. Other advantages is te destination server might go unavaiable, too slow, or a page might be moved, altered. In one surprise instance I found an article I have read has changed from English to Spanish (http://mindretrieve.blogspot.com/2005/02/article-gone-mindretrieve-save-day.html). It is actually gone entirely when I checked again today.

This might be a hard sell to many people. On the other hand I’m looking at personal web as a potential breakthrough in information retrieval.

John Smith said:

Commendo Software (www.commendo.com) is another companies with similar technology.

Skeptic said:

This exposes the real story behind so many “stealth” companies, founded by has-beens:

“We have nothing to show and no proof that our ideas will work. So we will pretend we know something you do not. We will act smug about it and try to impress you with past [irrelevant] accomplishments”

No wonder why bubbles happen.

Steve said:

iOra does similar software for Enterprise use, and has for some years (http://www.iora.com)

Yuri Ammosov said:

AvantGo could do this for PDA for years. Firefox and Opera can do this for years. Is is a kind of business you can get now funded in the Valley? How do you become such a lucky guy? You need to play golf with some VCs?

Skeptic said:

Hold off calling these guys lucky, Yuri.

If your plan is stupid, raising VC money would not help you with a successful exit. Only would raise the hurdle for taking home any money at all.

Would love to see what the reputations of these guys would be once they are done with Webaroo.

Remember AllAdvantage.com? Pets.com? WebVan? Deals like that come back to bite you.

scooter said:

I think its great.. all you guys seem to forget the pockets of this world where there is no cell phone network let alone internet connectivity….makes sense to be able to surf the web unconnected.

scooter said:

I think its great.. all you guys seem to forget the pockets of this world where there is no cell phone network let alone internet connectivity….makes sense to be able to surf the web unconnected.