BubblesHQ.com - Browser to Desktop with Ease

So the trend is to go completely browser based, web only. Portability is king. Leave your PC at home, go mobile, web applications rule. But, then there’s BubblesHQ, which bucks the trend completely. Bubbles wants to take the web to your desktop. It’s sort of the same concept as a desktop based email app like Outlook. Bubbles wants to add more functionality to web apps by making them more desktop friendly. With Bubbles, you can have a little gmail icon on your desktop. You’ll receive notifications. You can drag and drop files. Everything is more integrated with Bubbles. It’s no longer web based versus desktop. Bubbles promotes harmony and functionality between the two. Simply download to use.

“Your favorite web applications have been running in a Browser for too long. They're trapped in tabs, crammed between a gossip column, driving directions and an image search for cats. With Bubbles, your web-apps are a click away. super-charged with new features like customized notification windows, even when your web-app is minimized. No more separation between your desktop and the web - use Bubbles, and your favorite apps are just a click away.”

Bubbles is an interesting concept that goes against the normal Web 2.0 way of thinking where everything is about the web and desktop are really more a portal to get you online. But Bubbles manages to deftly fuse the two together to make for more functionality.

Will users go for Bubbles? There are similar notifications and drag and drop capabilities on other web apps. Is there a real need for what Bubbles has to offer?