Under this week's "systems" section of the syllabus, the link that currently reads zaplets should be www.zaplet.com.
Zaplet was the first VC funded spinoff of Reactivity, a Palo Alto technology venture accelerator back in early 2001 I believe. They were somewhat consumer based with a free demo anyone could use for a while before going enterprise and b-b. In a nutshell, you could receive one instance of a group email in your inbox and using (i-frames) it would load the current version with each update. The content was usually poll, survey, and/or group decision based.
Here is pic of the original, consumer-oriented ui The current version is described on this version of their website and is described as "app mail".
Posted by Amanda at February 16, 2003 12:32 PMThat's the zaplet related to email. The idea seems to be that people live in their email program, so integrate other features inside either email messages or the email program itself. It's email for task management.
Posted by: donturn on February 16, 2003 06:33 PM