Cloudo, the Swedish based Web OS focused company, has opened up it’s service to users for registration. They told this in their latest newsletter.
Cloudo is a web based OS service still in its very early stages. I was able to sign in, but there were quite a few glitches still to be ironed out. This could be also related to the fact that they are getting a lot signups that are slowing down the servers.
From a business perspective it still makes me wonder whom Cloudo is targeting with its service. Cloudo’s competitor, Mysites, has stated it will be targeting students and gamers. There is quite a bit of potential for services that Cloudo and Mysites are creating, however, I believe whom they are targeting have to be more clearly defined. For example, neither of these services state the third world as their target market, an area I believe is greatly undervalued by this kind of services yet they are the ones most in need of services like this. High license fees of OS’s is something that individuals in Africa and other developing parts of the world cannot cope with.
Signup for the beta and give it a try yourself.
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Although probably not signing up for the Beta (happy with 10.4.11), I like the idea of targeting these services at developing countries. The problem might be to get the word out to companies, education institutes and the like – something where NGOs which refurbish PCs for the developing world might come in handy.
Totally not working with opera
Very nice, was looking to try this when it was in closed beta.
Working fine with Chrome, although quite slow as stated.
Maybe Opera 10 will be better ;)
Xcerion and iCloud plays in another league if you are interested in webb OS. Especially if you are into programing yourself.
Regards!
very nice. wondering if they will provide a small linux-setup in order to use it as “real” OS, like http://www.splashtop.com.
cloudo looks promising, but i think they put too much effort in developing all the small apps. because cloudo is web based they could just refere to other SaaS RIAs and use their know how (ex. sumopaint, pixlr,…)