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G.ho.st Virtual Computing Adds API for Web-Based Apps

2009-05-27T06:02:13Z

A fabulous, ambitious virtual operating system, G.ho.st launched at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco two years ago. The browser-based computers allow users to leave their desktop, files, and applications in the Amazon-hosted cloud and access them from just about any place or device with an internet connection.

G.ho.st, which already implements well-known applications such as Google Docs, Meebo, Last.fm, and Pandora, has now announced an open API for developers, allowing them to add any web-based application as an integrated part of the G.ho.st virtual desktop.

]]> According to the site's developers' page, "The API is designed to be very light weight with a simple convenient approach to launching third-party apps by a URL and passing data as parameters to that URL. The API is entirely technology agnostic. Your web app can be AJAX, Flash, or applet with any back end, provided only it is launched in a web page with a URL."

The API launches as part of the company's developing GOSPL (G.ho.st web Operating System PLatform) architecture, outlined below:

We should note that for apps not contained in a single, swf file, G.ho.st will not be able to provide hosting. What they do offer is onscreen real estate, user intentification and profile information (based on consent), consent-based access to the user's file system, and communication with the G.ho.st desktop and other third-party apps. In the future, the company also hopes to arrange monetization and billing services for web apps.

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2009-05-27T20:49:24Z

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Comment from VitaminCm on 2009-05-27

2009-05-27T14:13:03Z

This is a really cool platform. I wrote an article about building a web operating system using available services like zoho and google docs. This would help tie things together a lot more than I originally thought.

Comment from Zvi Schreiber on 2009-05-27

2009-05-27T12:21:17Z

Jolie - thanks for reviewing the G.ho.st Virtual Computer and our new API and App Directory. As people start to use many devices - home PC, office PC, laptop, netbook, mobile phone etc. - we hope that the G.ho.st web-based cloud computer could be valuable to people and we would be very interested to hear people's feedback here and in our forums so we can continue to improve it.

Keep up the great work at RWW!