Comments on: Is it time for a Web OS yet?

By: carl

carl — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:47:54 +0000

i just cant wait! my blog

By: Deakialli DocuMental » Blog Archive » Web OS (no leer seguido) para gestiÃ³n documental

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:29:15 +0000

[...] En Ajaxian se preguntan si ya es el momento para los Web OS (sistemas operativos basado en la web) y nos pone tras la pista de Parakey (Computers are frustrating. Creating documents, finding files, sharing informationâ€” why do everyday things still seem so tedious and counterintuitive?) y de una interesante entrevista a Joe Hewitt we have two wildly advanced platformsâ€”the desktop operating system and the Internet. That leaves users with a frustrating choice. Do you want to create content with powerful tools in an ad-free environment and bury it in a system thatâ€™s accessible anytime, but only in one place and by one person? [...]

By: Jackson Capper

Jackson Capper — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:14:39 +0000

There is nothing wrong with the name Web OS. Ajax is an awesome technology and the ONLY thing that will ever make the web a decent experience. There is also nothing wrong with the name Ajax. Stop complaining! I’m a full-time web developer and my experiences with Ajax and the whole Web 2.0 thing have been fantastic! It’s such a shame that people aren’t prepared to let go of their dorky desktop programs, and their static, boring, 90s viewpoint of the web. If you don’t like Web 2.0 and what it’s all about, then run and hide and hold onto your desktop programs because the web is not going to go backwards.

By: Bjorn Jensen

Bjorn Jensen — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:49:24 +0000

We the Team Orca are sure about the web os, it is the time, it is fully functional and it is the future. Not anyone in this world is privileged to have a laptop unfortunatly and not everyone in this world is prepared to spend a fortune on a microsoft application! We are changing all that the future is the web and we have an outstanding product.
Try our beta version of a virtual desktop and leave some feedback and join the discussion we are always in the hunt for intelligent people who can help us make this the best OS!

http://www.orcadesktop.com

BjÃ¸rn Jensen Team Orca

By: Blake Ross on Firefox » So about that project…

Blake Ross on Firefox » So about that project… — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:35:23 +0000

[...] Thanks to the many people in the blog world who covered the story and offered input (positive and negative) about what we’re doing. I believe Matt Mullenweg was the first to break the story on the Web, and it was then graciously picked up by Matt Marshall, Dave Winer, Niall Kennedy, Om Malik, Aidan Henry, Ajaxian, Susan Mernit, Lloyd Budd, Alex Moskalyuk, [...]

By: Blake

Blake — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:21:02 +0000

Just to belatedly clarify a question raised in the article: Yes, JUL will absolutely build on the skills Web developers already have. We’ve designed it from the start with that in mind.

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æœ¬æ—¥æ›¸ç±¤ « penk - Keep on rockin’ in the free world — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:30:21 +0000

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By: pwn

pwn — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:29:58 +0000

http://chimpos.com lol

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:03:58 +0000

Are white iPods crap, and pink iPods a new ground-breaking innovation? Must be because they are “pinker”. That’s my new terminology for the misuse of AJAX and recent web technology – pinker. Want a killer web application? Add a little more pink. While I can’t pronounce his name, I completely agree with Bozhidar. The retarded terms that have been adopted by the web 2.0 crowd (oh wait …) to express ideas completely unrelated to their technology have to end. Lets call it “Web Collaboration Framework # 6008″, or some other such reasonably accurate name. I’m all for innovation, let’s do that. Let’s not take a desktop application (or in this extreme, the desktop) and duplicate the functionality in a browser. What does that get us? Is that innovative? A desktop app and a web app have different strengths and weaknesses, and finding ways of building on either in new and beneficial ways is innovation. Regurgitation, in pink, is not. Viva Web OS.

By: Bozhidar

Bozhidar — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:41:34 +0000

I would be happy if people drop the term “Web OS” asap. There is no such thing, and there will never be. It is simple – those things they call “Web OS” require a browser. The browser itself cannot work without a desktop OS. More – a web page cannot handle all the hardware, and cannot have the main part of every OS – a kernel. Call it “Web desktop”, or similar, but not OS – it will not make user and computer talk one language, like a normal OS do.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:36:12 +0000

Great idea! Too bad there won’t be much adoption. There are some great examples of “desktop functionality on the web” that just don’t cut it for most users. If I refer to my parents as examples, they have no desire to use google calendar because their paper-based Franklin Planner has worked fine for 10 years. Why use writely if the computer came with MS Word insalled?

While web sites/pages work great at times to mimic desktop functionality, I think that the ‘revolution’ needs to be mashups between the desktop and internet worlds. I use my treo for all my calendaring needs – what if the Palm desktop synched with my google calendar automagically?

Striking off in a new direction, with a new language, while it seems like a great idea, is probably the wrong direction, IMO

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:10:43 +0000

I’m very curious about this new framework/environment, but I also have some agreement with earlier commenters: I don’t see that there’s been a huge move to tightly integrate our personal PCs and the world.

I don’t see that this is selfish as much as it is wise — do we really want to be that connected to the world?

I like the idea of being able to use something such as S3 for backup, but this is so slow that I can’t see how this is feasible when secondary storage is so cheap. (Though I sure wish this wasn’t so slow.) As for making it easier to put material online, that has appeal, but I can throw a couple of plugins into Wordpress and achieve the same effect, without compromising the security of my site.

We’ll see when we have something tangible to explore.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:42:50 +0000

“Donâ€™t you see there is a conflict between the need for ever increasing hard drive sizes on personal computers, and the â€œmarketâ€ willing to have users store everything on remote machines?”

fpillet, the whole point of the article was that parakey resolves this paradox. Get over your anger and allow room for innovation.

By: fpillet

fpillet — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:20:46 +0000

I agree with Snootz. We’re in the middle of a giant hype bubble where people think they can sell everything and anything provided it runs on remote computers. This has been around for as long as computers exist, and I see many drawbacks and roadblocks for such a scheme. Don’t you see there is a conflict between the need for ever increasing hard drive sizes on personal computers, and the “market” willing to have users store everything on remote machines?

In my opinion, this bubble will burst soon enough, once investors figure out that they’ve been caught once more in the self-powering hype, and that they’ve once more been promoting form over function. These guys know squat about technology, but I admire the CEOs who have the balls to outright lie to investors about the potential of web-based crapplications. THEY are the ones making money now ;-)

I can’t agree more with Snootz. Count me out too.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:55:58 +0000

What about other Web OSes like YouOS, EyeOS, Xin, Orcaa, Goowy etc – I think this concept will not take off… I do not understand why would anyone require a different ‘desktop’ other than theirs…

By: Snootz

Snootz — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:47:45 +0000

To people who say “Web OS” I say, do you know what an OS is? What is the facination with throwing all of modern societies content into the ether? This will NEVER go over. I’m sorry, but people are too selfish to ever give up their personal, offline, desktops. Sure, there are things that I would like everyone to see, but I think that makes up about 10% of my productivity and content. This is the vision that companies like Google want you to buy into, but at a certain point people need to realize that Google is not the simple search engine they fell in love with, it’s a multinational, public CORPORATION that cares about 1 thing, greenbacks. Whether we continue to let “The Google”, as Bush put it, and companies like them, collect, crunch, and profit from our data under the mask of “collaboration” and “freedom” is up to us. But count ME out.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:17:47 +0000

I can’t wait for this! I have seen the light ever since installing the new Streampad Desktop software (http://www.streampad.com). Streampad is a webapp, but uses a tiny client to turn your PC into a server for music files. Now, all 3 of my PCs and 1 Mac are perfectly synced with my music. If Parakey can do this for all file types it will be a huge success.

By: Giovambattista Fazioli

Giovambattista Fazioli — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:59:51 +0000

Yes! look italian ajax web site framework
http://applick.com