3 posts tagged “webos”
Goowy is a web-based operating system. Written in Flash, Goowy has been designed and developed by four developers since March of 2005. It is a closed system that seems to try to build off of the mac UI(with bouncing icons and such). It comes complete with an instant messenger, email, contacts, calander, news/rss, and file storage. It even gives you your own email address. username@goowy.com. Sounds like A great deal? Well lets look at it:
Plus side of Goowy(compared to other webOSes)
- Easy to use GUI
- Useful applications
- Good amount of storage(2GB)
- Easy way to access email
Down side of Goowy(compared to other webOSes)
- No current way to develop for it
- Not many applications
- Requires Flash(it makes it look good but it is easier to use other webOSes such as eyeOS or YouOS
Conclusion:
It is a very nice service and the developers have put a lot of work into it. It really is a nice experience. With that said there are flaws such as you cant develop for it, leaving the developers with the server side, user end, and all the apps. It is worth a try but before settling on anyone WebOS please check out the other Weboses(we have previously reviewed eyeOS and YouOS)
Screenshots:
File Storage:
Goowy Dashboard:
There are many differences between eyeOS and YouOS but the goal is the same. A great webOS!
YouOS is a web operating system developed with JavaScript and uses the dojo toolkit. YouOS is one of the most interesting projects I have ever seen. It combines A web desktop with web storage. When you sign up you get 250 megabytes of storage and one gigabyte of storage. Along with many very interesting application that the YouOS developers have created, the community has developed the vast majority of applications with the integrated development environment. The amazing thing is: the whole thing is completely amazing. It runs on a few servers in San Jose and relies on the ingenuity of four developers in California. They have just become open to businesses so that they may run their own YouOS network.
Now there are a few flaws in the design. The most notable is that JavaScript is not really being developed anymore. Now I know there are still an extremely large amount of JS devvers out there and I am one of them. And I know that web2.0 is almost literally running on JS.
YouOS seems to have a future. All it has to is play its cards right...
