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Get your own virtual computer from G.ho.st

Started by Ewan · 10 months ago

Fancy a free, web-based Virtual Computer? You just log-in to it from your web browser, and there is your desktop, waiting to go to work for you?
I’ve played with quite a few of these types of services over the years. I’ve always liked the idea of having my ... Continue reading »

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  • Alex (SMS from PC)

    9 months ago

    Idea is nice. Screenshots look good too. This can be used on some cheap UMPC's at some point even.

    Here's a problem with getting this adopted across the board any time soon though - a team of ten, twenty or even hundred will not get you a good platform/API, solid e-mail client, browser, IM app, office client, etc, etc, etc. They can only do as much... And users like variety.

    If there's no adoption, there's no developer interest, if there's no developer interest there's no adoption (think Windows, iPhone). Would Microsoft, Apple or Google buy them out at some point? That remains to be answered..
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  • Ewan

    9 months ago

    Excellent points Alex...



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  • Anton

    9 months ago

    Try http://g.ho.st/m

    And note also that it's an open source project:
    http://code.google.com/p/pixie-os/
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  • Ewan

    9 months ago

    Ah excellent
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  • Zvi Schreiber

    9 months ago

    Thanks for the review - well at least our URL is short and original :-)

    If it doesn't redirect immediately you can open G.ho.st on your mobile using http://G.ho.st/m - you have to sign up from the full browser first.

    Watch out for many improvements including a big speed-up soon

    Zvi
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  • Ewan

    9 months ago

    Thanks Zvi!
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  • Zvi Schreiber

    9 months ago

    Alex

    The good news is we have a team of 40 and G.ho.est DOES NOT develop our own apps like other web desktops do - we have embedded best-of-breed Web apps like Google Docs, Yahoo! Zimbra, ILoveIM, Zoho and other leading Web apps!

    Zvi
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  • Ewan

    9 months ago

    Smart!
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