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I’ve been getting a kick out of Muxtape, a simple way to create and share mp3 mixtapes.
Muxtape can run as a standalone Mac application built on Fluid.
Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many other goodies.
Fluid does Greasemonkey, tabs, feeds, Growl and more. Cool stuff. Not that I want another 15 apps running but this is a nice attempt at a solution that doesn’t require rebuilding websites and services to run as AIR/Sliverlight applications.
Quick video demo of setting up a Fluid app. I made one for Theprogressbar in 15 seconds. I always check where a video is hosted from. The Fluid demo video is on Blip.tv. I talked to the Blip guys last year and was very impressed. I’m doing my own show at ustream, which syncs with Blip, nice.
Mozilla Has other desktop-based application in the pipeline as well, called Weave.
