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Web-Based Operating Systems: Take Your Desktop Inside Your Browser With G.ho.st The web operating system is evolving as a form at a rapid pace, promising to free us from Windows once and for all. If you want to take the desktop to your web browser, one contender is well on the way to making it possible. Certainly the ... read more | cat.: systems | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- July 16

Web Operating Systems And Web Desktops: A Mini-Guide Wikipedia defines Web Operating Systems (aka WebOS) as: “A software platform that interacts with the user through a web browser and does not depend on any particular local operating system.” Web operating systems are also commonly referred to as Web desktops: "A web desktop or webtop ... read more | cat.: systems | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare -- April 8

Windows Vista And Office 2007: Pros And Cons Of Upgrading - The Becta Report Few weeks have passed since Microsoft has officially launched Vista, its new operating system, and Office 2007, the latest release of the popular suite of productivity tools installed on most office computers around the world. Image credit: Windows Vista Package Nonetheless the short time since Microsoft recent ... read more | cat.: systems | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare - Becta -- February 12

First Online Payment System To Be Open-Source And Bank-Independent Now In Beta: Ripple Paying without cash and without going through a bank may seem an impossible proposition. Not so, says Ryan Fugger, the architect of Ripple, an open-source bank-independent payment system that is now in Beta release, meaning it's open to play with and test. Photo credit: Mikael Damkier Conceived ... read more | cat.: systems | Link | Comment Sepp Hasslberger - Hasslberger on Physics - Economy - New Energy -- March 27

Content Distribution: Operating Systems As Media Channels "Call it the widget revolution. Mac OS X, Windows and Linux all have widgets for pulling in available content from small software houses and other sources around the Internet. Although users can cull these free bits of data from elsewhere on the Web, the widget, thanks Link | cat.: systems Elizabeth Millard - Newsfactor -- September 8

User-Driven MetaData Definition: Tagging From The Roots Transforming the creation of explicit content metadata from an isolated, professional activity into a shared, communicative activity by users, is an important development that should be explored and considered for future development of large repositories of digital content. Photo credit: Justin Bird True: Its uncontrolled nature is fundamentally ... read more | cat.: systems | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 5

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