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LifeIO: Check Your Email, Read Feeds, Post to Twitter, Keep Notes & More From One Cool Site

If a clever name is bound to attract attention from geeks and early adopters, a pompous spec sheet usually spells disappointment, whether it’s integration problems, clutter or bugs. I’m happy to say that although LifeIO is in alpha testing, it’s a solid web app that overall delivers on its promise. Unless the developer team turns a 360, the September public beta should be a success for parent company ATTAP (an acronym for ‘All things to all people’).

What does LifeIO bring in the already overcrowded space of web applications? Well, the concept itself is not exactly new, but the implementation is the one of the best I’ve seen so far. Integration is good when it’s done right. Think about Apple products – they all fit together from the hardware to software and support.

It’s much more convenient to have everything you need to manage your online social life in one place, especially if it does a great job at interfacing with all that information; allowing you to sift through stuff that you want to see. Having all the tools you need in a sleek one stop shop – how could you say no to that? LifeIo is the free, complete productivity suite for web 2.0.

LifeIO, like the name suggests, aims to be the bus on which information travels to and from you, hence IO(input/output), by aggregating your email, RSS, contacts, social networking accounts, calendar, tasks and even a basic note taking application. Add another couple of new features and applications in the mix, and you might be on your way to the online operating system.

Even more tech-oriented people will recognize that those types of apps represent 90% of the functionality you need day-to-day. A bit of polish here and there, integration with lightweight OS (Google Chrome OS?) via something like Mozilla Prism and you might have just stumbled on the next paradigm shift in computing.