One of my favorite new applications is SiteShuffle.

Here's my shuffle. Sign up and send me yours!

The founders of SiteShuffle are officially launching the application today, Monday, March 6, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

SiteShuffle is an interesting application. It is one of the first applications to base its interface on favicons, which is kinda cool, and its premise is simple: Create a "media-player"-style interface for links, and use that to create a new kind of homepage which allows users to navigate to their favorite sites from one location.

What's also cool is that they use the connections of LinkLists in the SiteShuffle system to deliver associative relevance-based link recommendations to users (based on their similarity to other users).

With this release they've also published an API, which, among other
things, allows developers to subscribe to the Suggestions RSS stream. That could be killer.

Anyway, the app has been running for about 6 months, it's stable, and
they're looking for users and feedback to take it to the next level. They have a user-feedback forum set up.

Try it...see if you like it...

HINT: Try using your arrow keys to scroll through your LinkList...it's SUPER fast, and just a bit addictive. Hit the "up" arrow key to launch a site...

And here's the "official" SiteShuffle press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 6, 2006

SiteShuffle Launched at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego

Today marked the unveiling of a new application called "SiteShuffle".

SiteShuffle is a NEW Web application that turns a user's HOMEPAGE into a WEBSITE PLAYER, and gives users the ability to FF> or REW< through a LINKLIST of their favorite WEBSITES. SiteShuffle is EASY, FREE, ANONYMOUS, and PRIVATE.

Plus, users get automated RECOMMENDATIONS for other sites, based on their similarity to other users in the SiteShuffle system.

SiteShuffle presents a solution to a recently emerging "daily read" problem. Essentially, people take a "garden path" through the main portals. But, with the explosion in blogs and other alternate media, people have expanded their number of daily "reads".

SiteShuffle allows a user to compose a daily read of their favorite sites.

It's also eminently adaptable to mobile phones and other limited input devices since it's a 'click-only' interface for accessing Web pages.

"The interesting thing about SiteShuffle is that this just started as a hobby to keep us off the streets...quite frankly, we built SiteShuffle for our own use, and some of our friends seemed to like using it as well," says Grad Conn, one of the founders of SiteShuffle. "If more people hop on board, that's great, since it will improve the suggestions for all users in the system."

SiteShuffle is based on open source technologies such as MySQL, Linux, and Lighttpd. The application was built with Ruby on Rails and employs industry-leading AJAX technology.

ABOUT SITESHUFFLE INC.
SiteShuffle Inc. is a privately-held Delaware corporation with offices in Seattle, WA. The founders of SiteShuffle are Grad Conn, Mike Glass, John Henson, and John Midgley. Grad and the Johns are all former employees of OpenCola Inc., inventor of the world's first P2P Web server and collaborative Web filter (sold in 2003 to OpenText Corporation), and Mike Glass is a Microsoft/Compaq veteran.

Web site: http://siteshuffle.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Investment and Media:
Grad Conn at grad@siteshuffle.com

Technology and Jobs:
Mike Glass at mike@siteshuffle.com

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