NewMedia. Avril. Barcampparis. Online spreadsheet - iRows. WEB OS RUNDOWN: 45+ Web Operating Systems. Facebook wants to be the operating system for the web, it says, and this week's changes to its email system are a tiny part of that puzzle.
But there are many more web operating systems hoping to bring all your usual desktop applications online in one place. Some replicate the entire desktop, while others are startpages with info from around the web - here are more than 45 of our favorites. AstraNOS - Picture Windows 98. Then picture an OS X dock. Then picture a night sky. Echo2. Echo3 is a light-weight open-source framework for developing rich single-page web applications.
The server-side Java API enables fast & complex client/server applications using a Swing-style component API. The identical JavaScript API allows the easy development of pure client-side applications using the very same clean and intuitive programming model.