Sobees private beta preview has been launched in Spring 2008 and we would like to thank you for your interest and feed-backs. We have now closed the private beta preview and we are developing the public beta which will be launched in Fall 2008.
Based on your feed-backs, the experience we gathered and some mistakes we made, we have redesigned sobees to bring a much better and easier user experience.

What are the differences

Sobees will keep a modular approach but will better integrate the modules to avoid performance issues and loss of space on the desktop. Modules we will be grouped in a window while platform elements like menu, community, search and tabs will be better organized to provide a less disruptive user experience. We focus more on the end user process rather than the functionalities and the design which will remain key to making the experience easy but will be less prominent.

First application

Our first application in this regard was an application for tracking the European soccer competition Euro 2008. Based on the success of this application, we have launched a generic News application: just enter some keywords (sports, people, hobbies…) to get news, videos, pictures and tweets regarding your topics. The application is available in English, French and German.
You can download bNews here. We would appreciate your feed-back on this tool.