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December 21, 2006
A web-based operating system?
Robin Hastings reports on A Passion for 'Puters about Craythur.com, a seeming web-based OS. You create a free account with a 100MB diskspace limit, and then run your life from the site--using their systems for a calendar, file organization, tasklists, banking, bookmarks, contacts, and more. An interesting foray into what all the gurus say is the next big change in the web--web-based operating systems. No more being tied to one machine or moving files from place to place on portable drives or disks.
Lots of these services exist piecemeal across different sites now--Google is as close as you can get to a one-stop shop (what with their Office-competitors, calendar, mail, etc.), and I'd be willing to bet that they'll be the ones with the first web-based OS.
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I hadn't heard about Craythur; thanks for the post. I've been playing with a similar service recently, called YouOS (youOS.com). It's still in alpha, but is pretty polished: looks like it's written in Flash, and it has some pretty neat features. Being a Unix/Linux geek, I especially appreciated the terminal app. :-)
Posted by: Eric | January 4, 2007
After all the links to my original post, I went in and edited it - the del.icio.us daily links app only displays so much information from the notes field - who knew? Anyway - I agree with you that Google is more than half-way there already. I can't see moving all of my information from Google to a competitor - but for people who aren't as heavily invested in Google as I am, this seems to be a great way to get all of your information that may be sprawled across the web right now into one, easy to access place.
Posted by: Robin | December22, 2006
