Fluxium caught my attention the other day as browsed through the articles in my newsreader. Initially what brought me to the site was a posting by Geoffrey Grosenbach referring to what Thomas Fuchs was doing that was to sensitive to comment on publically until very recently. The Quicktime promo movie looks very promising indeed especially for someone in the photographic industry. I really like the way resources can be easily tagged and shared between other people in a manner that seems more graphical and targeted than Flickr's generic gallery system. The graphical interface was very slick and entirely web (html/css/javascript) based. Of real interest to me was the obvious role of RSS in the application. Prominent RSS feeds were in the demo but the extents of their functionality was unfortunately not covered in the demonstration. Given the intelligence of the developers I would not be surprised if RSS functionality was extensive and well thought out.
A promotional shot of Fluxiom
The basic interface was something I envisaged in the model I am proposing, simple and orientated towards the visual professional market in such a way that the powerful technical concepts and technologies beneath the surface are transparent to the end user. It is really good to see something like Fluxiom sharing so many of the ideas I have been playing around with, it makes me feel more comfortable I am not on the wrong track (or just on the wrong track with a bunch of other people). As far as business models are concerned it appears Fluxiom is going to be client/server based (probably using a subscription model) which is entirely different to my distributed office centric approach to information distribution.