What I really like about Jolicloud is that it treats cloud apps just like desktop apps. The desktop has all of your most used websites on it. If you launch Gmail, Twitter and Facebook, each one runs in its own window. Each web app has the feeling of a standalone application, even though they are really just web pages (Chromium browser with the URL bar and extensions hidden). You can run Open Office and Google Docs side by side and both will look equally like a normal desktop program.
The Jolicloud desktop is actually an HTML5 page running on Chromium browser. This is also really cool. This means that the entire time your Jolicloud machine is running, Chromium browser is running also. This is nice if you have extensions such as Chrowety or Imo. On a normal desktop machine I hate installing desktop twitter clients like Tweetdeck, so I use browser extensions. However, I have a habit of closing the browser between sessions. Thus, Chrowety will not tell me how many tweets came through while I was away. With Jolicloud, all of your handy extensions are always running; Chrowety will always keep up with your twitter account, even if you have closed all applications.
There is also a social aspect to Jolicloud that some people may find fun. You can have Jolicloud friends who can recommend applications to you. So if you have a friend or family member who also uses Jolicloud and they install a cool program (by the way, installing programs is super simple on here) they can "like" the program. From your computer, you can see a list of applications that your friend liked and you can install them with a single click if they suite your fancy.
I like the direction that Jolicloud is taking. They realize that most of the computing we do, especially on netbooks, is done in the cloud. Yet, for those skeptical of a cloud-only OS, Jolicloud has a full build of Ubuntu behind its HTML5 surface.
On the other hand, anyone could use Jolicloud without ever knowing anything about Ubuntu. The HTML5 interface gives users everything they need for daily computing and nothing is ever more than a few clicks away. For all of these reasons Jolicloud has my recommendation.
There is also a social aspect to Jolicloud that some people may find fun. You can have Jolicloud friends who can recommend applications to you. So if you have a friend or family member who also uses Jolicloud and they install a cool program (by the way, installing programs is super simple on here) they can "like" the program. From your computer, you can see a list of applications that your friend liked and you can install them with a single click if they suite your fancy.
I like the direction that Jolicloud is taking. They realize that most of the computing we do, especially on netbooks, is done in the cloud. Yet, for those skeptical of a cloud-only OS, Jolicloud has a full build of Ubuntu behind its HTML5 surface.
On the other hand, anyone could use Jolicloud without ever knowing anything about Ubuntu. The HTML5 interface gives users everything they need for daily computing and nothing is ever more than a few clicks away. For all of these reasons Jolicloud has my recommendation.
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