Διαβάζεται σαν "Το Ξύνεις" αλλά πρόκειται για τον Xiine, έναν νέο πολύ εντυπωσιακό Digital Reader βασισμένο στις αρχές του New York Times Reader, πλήρως ανεπτυγμένο σε .NET 3.0 και Windows Presentation Foundation.

Με βασική διαφορά ότι αποτελεί μια πλατφόρμα η οποία μπορει να φιλοξενήσει πολλαπλές εκδόσεις που υποστηρίζουν ένα συγκεκριμένο format, το Xiine προσφέρει μερικά μοναδικά χαρακτηριστικά:

  • We have succeeded in building a next generation digital publishing platform that is entirely based on .NET 3.0 (in particular WPF and WCF), that provides a much better reading experience then the web or other current reading technologies.
  • The reading experience is based on WPF “flow documents”, which allows us to create a very professional layout, yet at the same time adjust to people’s preferences and hardware, such as screen size, font size, number of columns, and much more. So one of the core features of Xiine that is often overlooked is that Xiine content simply reads better than any of the other content that is out there right now (HTML, PDF,…)
  • Xiine at core is made for reading digital content, but we go beyond plain text and include all types of media, from audio, to video, to 3D visualization. (More demos for such “unusual” content will be forthcoming).
  • Xiine is a managed library. Unlike other digital reading systems such as Adobe Acrobat, Xiine helps users to collect and organize digital reading content. For instance, with Xiine, a user can add a book to his library in the office, then go home, log into Xiine, and the book will be right there!
  • Xiine is a unified reader. It is open and the goal is for all kinds of publishers to make content available in Xiine. We are already talking to numerous publishers in the software business and even beyond. We will also make a large amount of content available completely free of charge, in particular through our “Xiine Classics” channel. And all this will happen within a single reader. (You may have seen the New York times reader and other readers, but who wants to download and install tons of different readers, just to take a peek at an article?).
  • Xiine enables content annotation. And it does so not just locally, but users can synchronize annotations back to the server, so they can move to a different machine, open the same content again, and their annotations will be right there!
  • Xiine provides a reliable delivery platform, allowing publishers to make sure content users subscribe to (and potentially paid for) does get delivered as promised. This is currently a very problematic issue for digital publishing companies. Xiine solves this problem.
  • Xiine integrates age rating for either entire publications or issues/books, and all the way down to individual paragraphs within content.

Περισσότερα στο blog post του δημιουργού του, Markus Eggerr