Today we are announcing the launch of KiteDesk 1.0 with our Web application exiting beta and our new native iOS application now available in the AppStore.

New in version 1.0 is full support for Yahoo and Facebook.  Now you can read your messages from Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo all in the same place and view the people and contacts from all of those accounts plus twitter at the same time.

Your Personal Cloud Manager

Today our technology addresses us as a set of loosely connected accounts, each with some portion of the information and capabilities we have access to, but none of them delivering the whole picture.  KiteDesk is designed to put you in the center of your digital life, and to integrate your favorite services at home, and at work.

The Features You Will Love

KiteDesk delivers the features you need to be more organized and productive while giving you a great consumption experience on both mobile and web.

Give it a Try

KiteDesk is free to use, and easy to set up.  You don’t even have to create a KiteDesk account, just log in with any of your existing cloud accounts.  Give it a try… You will be amazed to see everything in one place, automatically linked together. And let us know what you think, we are already looking forward to delivering the next set of services and features.

Connecting YOU to the Cloud
The fundamental, foundational concept that drove us to create KiteDesk is that each person has a unique set of information and computing capabilities at their disposal but no unified way of working with or managing the most basic real world concepts in their lives, like messages, posts, events, people, places, products, & files. These concepts, or a subset of them, are present in almost every consumer and enterprise application you use. Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Box, SalesForce, Asana, custom enterprise apps, the list goes on. And even though you, as a person, have accounts that grant you access to these systems, you still can’t get a single, clean, integrated view of this data, or perform common tasks like messaging, posting, file sharing, across the boundaries of these offerings. This is especially true when moving between different devices, operating systems & platforms.

Personalized Information
The term Personal Cloud is a little bit loaded today. Some use it to refer to ‘cloud like’ capabilities being delivered by personal hardware, drives etc. Others use it to refer to the ecosystem of cloud based file storage and management services and systems. The emerging perspective on personal cloud is the one that we promoted at our founding which defines it as “personalized access to information and capabilities delivered through cloud based services to any device.” Our mission is to be the interface to your personal cloud.

APIs vs Apps
Research has found the people will use a relatively small number of applications consistently. With App Stores filled with hundreds of thousands of apps, we think that the world needs fewer more integrated apps, vs a great number of less integrated apps.

KiteDesk uses the public API’s from your favorite services, and standards like IMAP, VCard, ICalendar to weave together a powerful, simple and unified experience. KiteDesk is designed to be your personal information integration system, letting you choose which services can contribute to your experience.

Main Features
KiteDesk starts with the concepts that are most commonly used across all systems: people, messages, posts, files, events, places and companies. From your existing accounts and your favorite consumer and enterprise services, KiteDesk links all of your data together, regardless of its original source. The account and data linking is done automatically in a simple and intuitive application that enables users to create, manage, search and share their data. Everywhere that data is presented in the application, all of the connections are shown. For instance, when looking at a calendar event, the user sees and can navigate through all of the connected people and related data. Click a single guest or all guests, and KiteDesk automatically creates a “Stream” of associated email exchanges, files, tweets, other appointments and more. Users can also create their own custom Streams using their own criteria to filter and organize the information as desired.

KiteDesk also offers the ability to perform the most common tasks, like sending messages, updating posts, sharing and editing files, and searching all of your cloud based information at once. Because KiteDesk was designed to work with all of your cloud services, we’ve built in the features to simplify tasks that are cumbersome and complex today. For example, in KiteDesk you can drag and drop between file providers like Google and Dropbox, add attachments from any file provider straight to an email, save directly from an email to any file provider, and much more. These features radically increase productivity and make life simpler. KiteDesk truly changes how people use the cloud.

Our Next Steps
KiteDesk is committed to delivering your cloud based information to all of your devices. We started with an HTML5 based client, and now we are working on our native iOS application. We are also working to integrate as many of your favorite services as we can, as quickly as possible. We are moving on to Facebook and LinkedIn next, but if you have a vote, log into KiteDesk and choose the Submit Feedback option to let us know.

Launching Your Kite
We are excited to get your feedback. I hope you will join us by launching your own Kite. We have a lot to do, and in many ways we are just getting started, but we hope you like what we have for you so far.

It’s always nice to get some buzz about the product out there, and if it comes with some good feedback, so much the better!

Check out this video to see KiteDesk Streams in action!

Our initial focus and implementation is targeted at Gmail and Google Apps Users.  If you or your company/organization use Google’s services, you will find KiteDesk to be a compelling compliment Google’s other offerings.

Please register for the Beta and let us know what you think.

Please also visit our connect page to join our communities.  We will be updating everyone on our progress and looking for your comments.