During the past few months, the Zukmo team has been both strategizing on the nuances of product development and simultaneously enhancing the alpha version to accomodate significant improvements for our users. The roadmap for Zukmo has acquired a firm and decisive shape as a result of our internal delibrations and we will be striving hard to facilitate it primarily as the key to solving the pesky problem of information overload in a digitally exploding universe.
We intend to make Zukmo the go-to-destination of all the important content that you discover anywhere. Initially, we got started by enabling our users to bookmark any web content of interest to them and then be able to search for the same at leisure within their own Zukmo space. However, bookmarking marks only the begininng of our endeavours and we are intensly planning to cut across a broad swathe of the digital content spectrum that users are likely to keep in their crosshairs.
Soon, you would be able to save, search and share all kinds of information from many desired sources of content. This would include a broad array such as Facebook & Twitter Streams, Desktop Documents, Google Apps, Emails, Video/Audio streams, RSS feeds, Web Clippings, Notes and much more. Further, we will be also adding support for such premier smart device platforms such as Android, iPhone and iPad etc. by building user friendly search and retieve apps that can be dowloaded into the respective mobile devices.
Given the direction we are going, we want to clarify that we are neither competing purely in the space of social bookmarking nor do we wish to add redundancy to existing cloud storage services. Our service will clearly be distinguished to aid as a personal digital memory for our time conscious and information flooded users who wish to quickly capture their online and desktop experiences for later consumption. Also, we will execute in a manner where content remains in sole possesion unless explicity shared by the user and we prefer not to compromise on the model of privacy being dictated by the user. We will however plan on providing a more comprehensive platform that will enable sharing and colloboration on documents within a group created and designated by the user.
Zukmo is meant to serve as a simple and supportive extension to the users for both capturing the designated information in a variety of contexts and hosting that selected crux of their online experience in the cloud. We envision a future where our users could dig out any content of importance to them from anywhere (i.e through browser or desktop or mobile devices) and continually add it to their personal library in the cloud. Then they could simply tune into their personal Zukmo space or “My Zukmo’ once again from anywhere to find all the relevant content that they have gathered diligently by leveraging its rich full-text and attribute based search capabilities. The core features of Zukmo are thus meant to enhance the productivity of the users, assist in the readability of content, promote the interactive sharing of content between private groups and provide for a secure cloud based content vault.
We have our work clearly cut out for us in terms of vastly expanding the scope of support in Zukmo and all future changes to our product and updates will be henceforth reflective of the core vision shared in this post. Currently, a major release has been slated during this week loaded with new features and we urge you to stay tuned to us on the exciting developments.
The way Zukmo is progressing, I can see it to be a new kind of service that pretty much allows us to search within ourselves. More or less like a sub-conscious mind. Let me throw an example. I am going to a site, I bookmark some information, I tweet with my friends, I chat in Facebook and during an important conversation, I feel that I need an information that discussed with a friend some years back and couldn’t recall that. I could not find that information in Google since it’s something that I discussed with my friend in Facebook and I want that precise information back which I believe a search in Zukmo can help.
Google is all about searching information in web which is pretty much what other’s write in the web. But Zukmo kind of allows to search within the information that we felt important overtime and gives us the ability to recall the information whenever we require… and when Zukmo reaches that level, I believe it would be apt to call it our digital subconscious mind. Just my two cents :)
A very interesting novel perspective of lofty dimensions which still encompasses in its constituent ideas, the fundamental goals and objectives that we wish to weave around the development Zukmo. Nice thought on your part to have shared with us on a day when we have pushed a new release into production which hopefully takes us one step closer to the desired level of expectation of our valued users