We have a real challenge in classifying MyUniverse because its flexibility means it will be different things for different people.
For one it is a personal information organizer. For another, it could be an interactive presentation tool, an Investment Tracker or a Home Inventory. For another, it is a portable document for information exchange or a social network Gateway. For another, it is something we have not yet imagined and for another, it is all of the above.
MyUniverse is built for flexibility, discovery and growth. MyUniverse is for everyone from novices to the technically savvy. Start simple and as your familiarity with MyUniverse grows, the possibilities grow.
Diverse capability with Smart Parts
On the surface, MyUniverse looks like a widget or gadget type application that you may have seen with Google Gadgets, Yahoo Widgets or Microsoft Gadgets, but this is much more. The gadgets we call "Smart Parts" work in conjunction with the MyUniverse application to provide powerful capabilities. The Smart Parts currently available for MyUniverse have a range of capabilities from Image display, Movie clips to Stock Quotes and a Formula calculator. By giving Smart Parts specific capabilities, you can structure the Building Blocks the way you need to display your knowledge and information – in your way.
MyUniverse is more than a gadget application
It is visually interactive
MyUniverse is a visually interactive application. Smart Parts are visual elements which you can manipulate by sizing and moving them to where they make sense to you. They can be grouped, overlapped and their visual appearance changed with shapes and colors. Smarts Parts each perform specific functions which can work with user interaction or automatically on their own.
As a Portable document
Adobe PDFs have become the standard for portable documents. We are not going to change that but we are bringing an interesting twist to the portable document concept.
