Trillian Astra: The Trillian of Web 2.0

Cerulean Studios have announced that the newest version of Trillian, Trillian Astra, is in alpha testing.

Trillian is best known for bringing all of the chat services into one client, and Astra is aimed at bringing blogs, photo sharing, RSS feeds, and other web services into a single comprehensive application.

From PopGadget:

The new Trillian widget architecture uses Flash presentation and XML data to export data to other web sites and the contact list. Things like location, current weather, current mood, time zone, CPU usage, mp3 playlists, and your contact list can all be shared. There are advanced permissions lists for creating rules restricting what type of data users can see. Basically, I can define rules to share my phone number and address only to people in my family list, but the family won't be able to see what I'm downloading over BitTorrent.

Looks like an interesting development, but I think they might have overstepped their abilities in taking on this project. Flock has tried to be the Web 2.0 web browser, and they have only been met with marginal success. I will hold off on saying Astra is going to be a flop until I get a chance to play with it.

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