Radus: A media-based browser for your web browser

by Brad Linder Oct 30th 2008

Radus is a Flash-based web browser that's based inside your... well, your web browser. Basically, when you go to Radus.com you'll be presented with a two pane window. On the left is your media window, and on the right is your navigation bar. You can browser content like blogs, online video, music, sports, entertainment, or music. Or you can enter searh terms. When you click on an item it will open up in the lefthand pane.

While the interface works pretty well for looking at YouTube or Hulu videos or images from PhotoBucket, Reuters, or other sources, it's a bit odd for reading text-based internet content like blogs. Basically it reformats text to fit in the media window, and shrinks any images to a postage stamp size. Then again, I can't think of too many reasons why you would choose to read a blog in Radus instead of just opening the page in your web browser.

You can also click a publish or share tab to embed content from Radus on other web sites or email to friends. If you register for a community account you'll also be able to add any content with an RSS feed.

[via WebWare]

Tags: online-media, radus, rss

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