Pogo is a 3D web browser created in collaboration between AT&T’s business development group and Vizible. We weren’t particularly impressed when we reviewed it a few months ago, but a new version has since been released. We previously noted…
Pogo works like a regular browser, but it manages pages more visually. Instead of tabs, it has a scrollable strip on the bottom that shows a thumbnail image of each site you’ve visited during your session. A “Springboard” button on the top left takes you to a grid view of your favorite sites—akin to what you might put on your bookmark toolbar. You can also view the rectangular cells in various Coverflow-like animations. You can do the same with regular bookmarks, which are treated as “collections.” You can drag Website images into each collection or associate a collection with a tag. Then any page you tag going forward gets automatically placed within that collection. Your browsing history is also represented visually, as is your search history. For any particular search, every page you click through to gets saved as part of yet another collection—although you can only see one search set at a time.
The visual tricks are neat, but at this early stage I am not sure how many people would ditch their existing browsers for better visualizations. Does it let you browse faster or more efficiently than you could before? I am not sure it does. In any case, AT&T would have been better off releasing this as a plug-in for Firefox. But presenting the Web in a richer, more visual way is definitely part of a bigger user-interface trend we’ve been seeing, especially in search (SearchMe, Snap, and ManagedQ come to mind).
We managed to get our hands on 500 invites. Use the promo code “YhYd16Q8″ (without the quotations) at the Pogo Website. Pogo still may be prettier than it is useful, but its nifty 3D effects may just get you to play around with it for awhile (Note: it’s currently Windows-only).
Very very very coool.. looks like something out of a iron man movie….. anybody got some invites to send this way??? PLEASE? ;;)
Thanks a lot. Was looking for one of these. They are pretty hard to get.
downloading it as we speak.
Incredibly slow download speed. Would anyone be interested in a FireFox plugin that sorted through open tabs and bookmarks in a coverflow type UI?
I rarely saw using coverflow used in under appropriate circumstances…too bad it’s only for windows
thanks TC though!
Where are you downloading from???? give a link or something!!! please!!!!
Or code .. someone?
Ciprian: Go to http://www.pogobrowser.com and enter the invite code posted above (YhYd16Q8).
Downloading now. I can`t wait to see the (maybe) revolution.
Peter Sauer : Thank you !!! I tried that but did not work with the code provided on POST… THANK YOU!! downloading now….
Ha ha, I’m sure EA is going to love this.
“AT&T Pogo requires that your computer is running Windows Vista or Windows XP” Odd because I am running XP. Maybe it does not run on XP 64-bit yet.
I was thinking the same thing EH.
It seems a bit bloated and slow. I didnt spend much time with it yet, but I still prefer opera 9.5(even though there are still some bugs in the new version)
Thank you so much for the invites.
Yea, I will also stick to Opera as my default browser. But just wanted to try it for the kicks.
btw, is there anyway I can invite my friends?
Well I think this is a cool idea but I think it should have been a firefox ad on. Im still going to download it
Is the promo code above working for anyone else? Maybe it got used up or something, but it isn’t working for me.
“The entered Invitation Code is invalid. ” Doh!
Seems cool but doesnt seem like most computers have the capabilities to run this browser efficiently while downloading or running multiple browsers. I could be wrong but i would imagine most people would chose speed over visualizations when it comes to browsing
ya, i tried the code and it said it was invalid?
The entered Invitation Code is invalid.
yep… not working for me too…..
The entered Invitation Code is invalid.
me 2
Thanks for the invitation code techcrunch.
Unfortunately, here is my experience thus far…..
1. Downloaded, installed, failed to start.
2. Restarted PC, tried again, failed again
3. Uninstalled, reinstalled, tried again….Total Failure…..
I was looking forward to seeing it in action too, but looks like that will not happen today. The error said I may have exceeded my resource limits, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.
Oh well…maybe another day.
Not working for me too.
The entered Invitation Code is invalid.
[2]
more invites here.
http://www.webw...-9972840-2.html
Code is bTHTRjv1
Invitation code in the post didn’t work for me (The entered Invitation Code is invalid.).
Code posted by Eric (#25) worked! Thanks!
It’s basically just visual fluff that mostly gets in the way of browsing the web. It’s kind of pretty, but it definitely slows me down a lot.
Thanks Eric. Your invite code worked. I had trouble with the one in the story.
just finished trying it… meh… its decent… I’m still sticking to FireFox and SpaceTime
Very cool and fancy, but destroy usability of general purpose applications.
3D may improve usability only in some special application domains, but not browsing contents.
im fine with the standard blackberry browser (sort of). I mainly use Opera on my blackberry, but find it annoying that i have to invoke the bb browser in order to download programs. If i’m going to clutter my blackberry with yet another browser, all i want to know is: Will it allow for .jad downloads, or yet again will i need to invoke the blackberry browser?
If you notice, I think that it is partly just a browser to try to gain revenue. Looking in the tutorial, all of your bookmarks have a ad at the bottom telling you that the thumbnails are refreshed daily by Pepsi… That is a major turnoff for me. Not using a substandard browser just because it looks nice and they want to make money off of me
Cool looking….
why can’t someone build an application that’s 3-d to use for building websites…. that would be killer. Flat wire frames and visio charts aren’t working any more…
dang no invites are working for me
Who has Invitation Code!!
Aw, I hope there is a new invitation code. I was all excited
Although this looks cool, it is one of those useless “features” that no one would use for more than 5 min (much like Vista’s Win+Tab). This ain’t gonna fly.
I used the invitation code on Ars a couple of minutes ago, maybe it still works.
Anyway, I like the idea, but my laptop doesn’t have 256 mb of video memory… that’s one of the system requirements. That’s alot for a browser. But then again, it’s a visual browsing experience. It still works on my laptop with a Ati Mobility Radeon X300 64 mb though, but slowly. Also, it took forever just to import some bookmarks (100 or so), which should take half a minute tops. You can import bookmarks from IE, Opera and Delicious, but not from Firefox, even though the browser is based on the Firefox source code. Strange…
It may look better then Firefox, but it is also 10 times as slow. There a couple of features I’d like to see in Firefox, but they aren’t comparing against the many features Pogo doesn’t have and Firefox does. So I’m sticking with Firefox.
I have seen demo and its cool.
None of the codes are working for me bTHTRjv1, nor YhYd16Q8
Neither code worked for me either….would be nice if AT&T told you before you enter a whole bunch o’ info.
Can anyone upload software on Rapidshare or any other files hosting website
Thanks
I missed out… anyone have an invite they can share? if so please email me at yesgames@hotmail.com thanks in advance. J
I just got an invite today if anyone wants it
Invitation Code: eGMKnWLN
Enjoy!
Please send me an invitation, thanks!
ricardojvquirino[at]gmail.com
Hello,
i would like to have invitation code too.
send me one pls.
darovec[at]gmail.com
Thank you
Hej,
Please, anybody can send me a valid code? Send me it at :
bredouane.usasve[at]gmail.com
Thank you!
can anyone send me a invitation code i really want to try this!
Hello,
i would like to have invitation code too.
send me one pls.
gazsiazasz[at]gmail.com
Thank you