Desktoptwo, Yourminis

http://desktoptwo.com/

http://www.yourminis.com/start

Desktoptwo是一个很有趣的网站，暂时还没法注册上，也许在系统调试？不过概念听起来还是很诱人的。如果云计算的成熟，加上足够宽的网络带宽，以后机器上只需要装一个Web浏览器了，谁知道呢，以前很多觉得不可思议的事情不都一一实现了么，好好努力吧。

在Wiki上有关Desktoptwo的介绍：

Desktoptwo is a free Desktop as a Service (DaaS) or Webtop developed by Sapotek (it's also been called a WebOS although Sapotek makes clear on its website that the term is premature and a bit presumptuous) that mimics the look, feel and functionality of the desktop environment of an operating system. The software is currently in beta stage yet has acquired, along with its sister site in Spanish called Computadora.de, more than 190,000 active users since its launch in August 2006. Desktoptwo is fully web-based and requires Flash player to operate. Unlike some other online desktops, which are more akin to aggregators of stand-alone applications, the web applications found on Desktoptwo are built on the same open source scripting language, PHP, and as a result the applications are interoperable and include, for example, drag-and-drop functionality. Sapotek is also the sponsor of a free software community, Sapodesk, through which it has liberated all the web applications found on Desktoptwo and works with community members to create additional open source web applications and Rich Internet Applications or RIAs.

Desktoptwo belongs to a category of services that intend to turn the Web into a full-fledged platform by using Web services as a foundation along with display technologies that replicate the experience of desktop applications for users. In a "Cloud OS", or what is essentially a Service-oriented architecture or SOA, the functionality of a server is granularized and asbtracted as Web services that Web developers can use to create composite applications similar to how desktop software developers use several APIs of the OS to create their applications. Sites like Facebook attempt to create a similar effect by exposing their APIs and allowing developers to create applications upon these.

Yourminis是个让人吃惊的网站，其界面的精美，使用的方便性，有点叹为观止啊。 但和Desktoptwo一样，都是基于Flash的，这会不会让它们的使用受到限制呢？iGoogle上的没有用Flash的Gadgets明显要丑陋多了。另外也许大家也期待这些Web应用能够脱离浏览器，可以摆放在桌面上，那岂不是又成了Client/Server模式，这似乎又慢慢脱离了Web应用的本意了：开放，瘦浏览器端。