Fluxiom

[[http://www.fluxiom.com/fluxiom.mov|The video]] is just //way// too **cool**!

But really, where is this going? Don’t we have existing products to do similar stuff? Lets see

* Flickr: I can post pictures, people can look at them, search them, tag them. But really no good way to download them. I can share them with my “contacts”, but can I create arbitrary lists with arbitrary permissions? Besides, Flickr is only for images
* A regular web browser with some passwords thrown in: you can clearly share content this way, and control access rights and so on. But you don’t get the pretty interface. Or the search. Or the tags. And password management is not easy either.
* Gmail: I can create one gmail account per group, and just dump all the content as email attachments. The text of the mail can contain tags. Searchable. Archivable. Tons of storage. Almost all the functionality is there, sans the interface. And of course, this would just be a big, ugly hack
* Strongspace: Except for the search and tags part, I think Strongspace already delivers most of these things. But I haven’t really tried it out myself, so I might be missing some fine points.

I can go on, but it does seem like Fluxiom has got something that no one else can do (fully). Which of course raises the quesion — is there even a market for such a thing? I’m not sure. I need to share content with family and friends now and then, but I typically end up emailing, SCPing or something similar. Perhaps small businesses have a greater need. My only concern is — how would this integrate with the business process? With email, the good thing is that you can track how and where the attachments are flowing and the whole things can be tightly integrated into the business. Would Fluxiom have APIs to do this kind of thing?