The First WebOS
Whoa. It’s here and it’s not from Google. There’s a startup called YouOS that’s currently in alpha. In fact, it’s really even younger than alpha, alpha alpha perhaps? You can register for an account and test it out yourself at YouOS.com. After logging in, your browser window becomes a desktop, complete with links and/or windows for email, chat, document creation, sticky notes, web surfing, RSS, file storage, along with some flickr and YouTube integration, as well. While waiting for the YouOS desktop to load, you are presented with a silly quote, like "Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog," which hints at the age of the YouOS creators - four young college grads. The YouOS website is slow, but don’t complain about that - if anything, this is more of a proof-of-concept, than a reliable, working product you’re going to start using on a regular basis.
But now imagine a Google acquisition of YouOS…hmmm…
Keep an eye on this one, folks.
YouOS blog…here.
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This isn’t the first Web OS! I wrote a post somewhere on this, uh, here
my opinion - XIN is more of a desktop, more like Goowy or Pageflakes; with YouOS you can install applications and run them within YouOS; you can access a shell that allows you to manipulate processes; there is a tag-based file management system, too.
eyeOS is more “OS-y” than XIN. eyeOS is awesome & beautiful, but there are limited apps to choose from…I don’t think there is a shell (am I wrong?). In YouOS you can use something called the YouShell program, the ps command, and the kill command. This makes it more OS-like than eyeOS, and less of a web service, or web desktop.
But people are still arguing these types of details. Some people say none of these “webOS’s” are OS’s because you can’t boot to them.
Who was first? could have been eyeOS, actually…I can’t find the initial release date, but see posts on their forum dating back to aug ‘05. YouOs was 12-05. So anyway….
These things are kind of cool to play around with, but I can’t ever see them catching on. There really isn’t any point to them. You have to run an OS to use a browser which you have to use to use these web OSs, so why would you want to run two OSs at the same time?
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t get it.
will Google buy that product? i think it will go so.
microsoft probally wount be buyer for that but maybe yahoo wnats it to great something.
This is not even close to the first WebOS. There was one many many years ago, but it eventually ran into the ground (ran out of money I presume). It was during the “Web 1.0″ era too. I cannot recall its name any longer though.