VMail

Principlely, to deliver a website (whole or partial) that runs on the recipients machine.

Fundamentally, a website is ineffective in delivering a 'payload' that is big. The user hates to wait and consequently useful information is excluded, with VMail the information is 'waiting to be read' instead of 'to be downloaded'.

Practically, the same can be achieved if the recipient is sent a program that they choose to run, the chance of people choosing to run a program is so low that it isn't done. Web browser and EMail client are already running so VMail doesn't need to persuade people to run a program.

The 'payload' is what VMail is about:

Deliver information in one go or put interesting things in VMail to make it 'pay'.

In One Go: Mainly, the recipient has a copy of the information so there is no need to record the location of the website. Typically a user would not flip through the web pages of a website like a catalogue because the delay is too long, with VMail there is effectively no delay. A typical online catalogue can take several seconds to switch between web pages because the product details are stored in databases, there is a lot of disk access.

Interesting: Provid useful information related to a product get the 'provider' noticed, the information gets read because it is 'useful'. People interested in a product is often interested in doing things with a product, so they hunt down the information on the web. There is no need to use VMail to do this, normal web pages will do, VMail would be very useful if you have a few dozen or a few hundred pages. The latter is worth doing because there are too many people providing information on the web, having a 'comprehensive archive' makes it much more attractive. Useful information get read but being one of the major 'recognized' definitive source of information scores much better.

VBooks is compressed, text and HTML is about one third of the size. Web server do not deliver compressed web pages.

Actually, VMail can do a lot more than just being a book but the general idea is to provide something useful that gets 'used' and the brand gets 'noticed'. More optimally, something people use frequently and is updated from a website, a VBook can obtain information from a website. It could be a game but a game that is 'popular' and (get used) generally require a lot of effort to develop.

What is 'useful' is up to the people who want to develop VMail for their needs to determine. For VMail itself, I built a library of books and a freebie program for people to their CVs as a VMail.