I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere - so I’ll pitch in my own insights into A9.

Not only is it a major step forward in the world of search engines - and sure to give Google and Yahoo a run for it’s money - but it’s also a major step forward in mainstream UI.

What I see is an adaptable, dynamic interface which is really simple to use and understand. It’s sexy, it’s functional and most importantly - it’s from an innovative mainstream leader.

Until these sorts of interfaces are everywhere - we’re still stuck in the quagmire of waiting for pages to load, and too subtle, too limited, too HTML-like experiences to capture the maintream audiences we all think “will be here - real soon now.”

Amazon defined eCommerce. Now they’re helping to define the new kind of user experiences I’ve been waiting for - for over 10 yeasr now.

I just love the images, the built in diary and the notion of an accompanying toolbar.

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