Dear all, I already posted here some cryptic announcements about an ambitious project of ours. Now the project is coming out, and you are among the first to know. Based on an Applescript/Smile engine, we have designed a new web site, Quomodo [1], which provides a new way for a group of members (your friends, a working group, a club, etc), or a family, to communicate and interact with better efficiency and with more pleasure. The first users say our site is innovative, simple to use, useful, and addictive. Our plans are to offer in this site (and to charge for them) services made by third-party developers or teams. In a first step, the site will propose only "smartnotes", which are like a new kind of widget. In a second step the site will propose full-fledged services [2]. To write a smartnote, you need only html and Javascript. To write a full-fledged service, you will use html, Javascript, AppleScript, and whatever language you wish to call from your AppleScript. This will be in a few months. So, at this step, Quomodo proposes you to develop widgets of a new kind that we call smartnotes. As you will see in more details in the URLs below, smartnotes differentiate with respect to other environments of widgets such as Google personal page on the following points. 1. making a smartnote is very easy, you don't need a web server, since we host smartnotes ourselves, 2. smartnotes are able to provide more creative features, due to the fact that smartnotes live in the context of a group of members, 3. a smartnote can bring money to its developer(s), as you can choose to charge our customers for them. We recommend to all of you who are familiar with Javascript that you visit now Quomodo's developer site [3] and start making whatever smartnote you may be thinking of. Please don't hesitate to spread the word around you. Also, your feedback will be very welcome. Thanks for your attention, and enjoy! Emmanuel Satimage-software, and now also Quomodo [1] The beta version of our site is at <http://beta.quomodo.com>. [2] A proof of concept of AppleScript-based web-apps is at: <http://www.myworksonline.com>. [3] The pages for developing at Quomodo are at <http://beta.quomodo.com/services/develop_en/develop.html>.