UBUBU became Linkscape Software in 2001. With the tech crash, the company took the software private (no more public downloads), but continued to develop it until 2003, when the company was forced to shutter because there was still so little investment in R&D. The latest software is much more sophisticated than the first release. Linkscapes became a browser-enabled 3d navigation and folder management application with an embedded desktop, 3D nesting, streaming video, browser skins, server controls, and lots of other stuff. SphereX is cool but very different – it’s still about windows whereas the point of Linkscapes was to harness color, size, proximity, and shape cues to provide richer meaning (the full spectrum of spatial cognition). Here’s a screenshot example of one component of the UI. I can dig up more screen shots and even software/code if you are interested. It works for Windows 2000 and XP.
This post has been edited by bb2: 03 January 2005 - 09:50 PM