Jetpaks can be shared with others.  When a Jetpak is shared, you can enabled the receiver to be able to edit the jetpak and contribute or modify content.  So, a Jetpak can be a vehicle for collaborative autoring.

Jetpaks are private by default.  You can share you jetpak with "The World" and make it public.  It shows up as its own web page on Jeteye.com and will be returned subsequently in search results.

You can also setup distribution groups and share jetpaks amongst a larger group of individuals.  In the future, we'll be adding importing of contacts and more refined control of collaboration (e.g. comment/review but not edit). 

In the end, both Jeteye.com and the Jeteye client use web services to create, manipulate, and share jetpaks.  The protocol is all XML.  In the near future, it will all be Atom-based.

Anyone who is a registered jeteye user can use these web services.  That means you can develop your own client that creates or uses Jetpaks for their own purposes.

On Jeteye.com, we have a contextualized search engine that uses the fact that a jetpak is an aggregate of web content and content within the jetpak.  Search results are calculated based on hits not only within the jetpak but also within the web pages to which the jetpak points. 

You don't create jetpaks on the web using our website.  Why?  Because when you want to create a jetpak, you aren't on Jeteye.com--you are elsewhere.

We have an extension to Firefox that lets you create jetpaks through drag-n-drop of web content.  Just grab any web content of the page and drag it into our sidebar extension and it gets added to a jetpak.

Jetpaks are collections of links, images, and notes that are categorized and contexualized by a real person.  Their purpose is for whatever you like but typically they are topic oriented.

For example, this jetpak is about Jeteye and what I've been doing at Jeteye.  As such, you'll see collections of links to technologies, the company, etc. that are also intermixed with notes and annotations.  In the end, jetpaks are XML content that can be repurposed.

In this jetpak is a link to another jetpak--which is my Jeteye blog.  This blog is really just another jetpak that gets a special presentation.  In fact, my blog jetpak contains an XML note that details the layout of the jetpak.  So, jetpaks can also contain metadata about how they are suppose to be used.