Whois & Analysis for userful.com

A software appliance is a software application that might be combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware (typically a server) or in a virtual machine.

In essence the term software appliance is designating the software distribution or the firmware that is running a computer appliance.

Userful Corporation is a Canadian software company that specializes in video walls, desktop virtualization, supporting centrally-managed desktops, and touch screens.

Visual networking refers to an emerging class of user applications that combine digital video and social networking capabilities.

It is based upon the premise that visual literacy, "the ability to interpret, negotiate and make meaning from information presented in the form of a moving image," is a powerful force in how humans communicate, entertain and learn.

The duality of visual networking - subsuming entertainment and communications, professional and personal content, video and other digital media, data networks and social networks to create immersive experiences, when, where and how the user wants it.

These applications have changed video content from long-form movies and broadcast television programming to a database of segments or "clips," and social network annotations.

And the generation and distribution of content takes on a new dimension with Web 2.0 applications - participatory social-networks or communities that facilitate interactive creativity, collaboration and sharing between users.

A video wall is a special multi-monitor setup that consists of multiple computer monitors, video projectors, or television sets tiled together contiguously or overlapped in order to form one large screen.

Typical display technologies include LCD panels, Direct View LED arrays, blended projection screens, Laser Phosphor Displays, and rear projection cubes.