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Today, cloud platform provider Appcelerator is expanding beyond mobile and Web with a new offering designed for developers looking to build cross-platform applications. Now, in addition to building for smartphones, tablets and the mobile Web, developers can use the new Titanium Studio to build, test and deploy to desktop platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux as well as build HTML5 Web applications, all in one single development environment.

Spoon gives users the ability to run desktop applications, including OpenOffice.org, TweetDeck and Autodesk's Design Review and Inventor Fusion Technology Preview from the cloud. Users need only sign-up for an account and install a browser plugin. The applications behave exactly like actual local desktop apps, except perhaps a tad slow. You can open and save files on your local hard drive as well. "Spoon allows software developers to make their existing desktop applications available in the cloud, with no installs," says an announcement from the company. "Spoon applications can be accessed from the Spoon.net library or embedded into any website, blog, or social media service as a 'Spoon Feed' with a single line of HTML."

Now meet Oxygen Cloud. We're not talking about a cloud for that cable network with a distinct feminine edge. Still, the logo is a cute pink. At least one fellow blogger at Enterprise 2.0 asked me if they were selling Oprah....in the cloud. He was serious.

BumpTop, the 3D desktop organizing and interface tool has been snapped up by Google. An announcement on the website says that downloads of the free version will end in a week.

"BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be available for sale. Additionally, no updates to the products are planned."

Google's plans for the organizing software are uncertain but the growth in mobile could indicate a direction. The simple fight between Apple and Google for the best interface could also come into play.

This morning, everyone is looking agog at the words of Google Europe boss John Herlihy, who's quoted in the Silicon Republic predicting the demise of the desktop computer.

"In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs," Herlihy said. Is this proclamation taking it one step too far or will we be keyboard-less and fancy free by the time 2013 rolls around?

Twitter rolled out its new lists feature to all users on Friday. Today, Seesmic will launch the first desktop client with support for lists. For now, this early release will only go out to users who sign up for Team Seesmic, the company's semi-private beta-test group. We got a chance to test an early build of Seesmic with the lists feature over the last two days and it already changed the way we use Twitter. Seesmic plans to ship this preview version later today.

Hulu, the popular online destination for streaming TV shows and movies, just opened up its new Labs project and one of the first projects to come out of the Hulu lab is a desktop application for viewing Hulu's content on Mac and Windows desktops instead of in a browser. In addition, Hulu also released a new video panel designer that allows users to customize Hulu's embed code, a new recommendations engine, and a new way to browse videos by when they aired on live TV.

FileRide is a Stockholm-based social network with a twist: FileRide creates a social network for you, based around the files that are already on your computer. FileRide, for example, lets you see who else on the services has the same song or image on their computers and lets you add them as friends. Even more interestingly, you can then also add comments to these files and chat about them in real-time. It is important to note, however, that FileRide is not a file-sharing network and that you can't tranfer files through the service. FileRide's client software currently only works on XP and Vista, but OS X and mobile versions are already in development.