Monday, June 02, 2008

Ghost



Ghost G.ho.st

is a "virtual computer," as the company calls it. Hosted at Amazon Web Services,
it's designed to be everything you need from a computer, except it's
not on your computer. You get a file system (with 5GB of storage for
free), a media player, and links to some apps. For example, if you want
to edit a word processing file, you can launch it into Thinkfree or Zoho.


The fact that Ghost doesn't come with a bunch of its own apps is the
key to this product, and what makes it more like an actual OS than many
other Web-based OS experiments I've seen. The design goal of Ghost is
that it acts as the clearinghouse for all your Web app accounts,
letting you shuffle data between them. For example, if you have a
document in Zoho Writer and want to edit it in Google Docs, Ghost will make the transition automatic. If you want to drag a file from your Flickr account into your Ghost file store, and later to an e-mail, Ghost will do that, too.

PS Please use my G.ho.st email==== tobs@G.ho.st when you are asked for who recommended you and I will get extra storage.

Thanks

tobs


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