Check Out http://g.ho.st

G.HO.ST is an emerging Web 2.0 company that will start to get traction as they make progress on providing a very rich and deep solution that allows you to take your desktop anywhere. This is one of the better solutions in the Web 2.0 space that I have seen for a while. It's interface is rich and the widgets for the environment are growing. I would recommend you give it a try and would love to hear your feedback. Nice innovation going on there.

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[Rami]

Thank you so much for reviewing and recommending G.ho.st the Global Hosted Operating SysTem. Our alpha is live at http://G.ho.st including 3GB of free storage from G.ho.st. Beta version is due this summer packed with full free applications and new features which will make G.ho.st a real Virtual Computer for anyone who want to be mobile.

Please keep feedback coming at http://G.ho.st/forums

[Dan Cox]

Bob,

Check out Bill Higgins (a Jazz web client developer) on web applications that don't act like the web:

http://billhiggins.us/weblog/2007/05/17/the-uncanny-valley-of-user-interface-design/

He pointed out something that I haven't been able to articulate in the past. It feels unnatural to have applications attempting to run as rich clients using DHTML/Ajax in a browser. It is ok for a specific element such as an interactive chart, but when it takes over the whole browser it it doesn't resonate. I'd rather have a click-once/java web start app that launches in its own window...