Fold - Another Web Desktop

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Fold - Another Web Desktop

by Jason Clarke May 10th 2006

Brad Isaac over at Achieve-IT! points to Fold, a new up-and-coming "web desktop" (currently in beta) that offers portable desktop-like functionality on a website. The feature list is fairly basic at this point, with the usual suspects present: RSS, notepad, calendar, weather and Flickr modules, but there are a couple of unique ones as well, specifically HTML and Flash containers.

The idea between the HTML and Flash containers is that simply put, if there is web content out there somewhere that you'd like to integrate into your Fold desktop, they are giving you the flexibility to do just that. I like it. Unfortunately, I'm still not a big fan of a web page that emulates a windowing system paradigm. I have no desire to drag little window containers around on a website. For now I'll stick with NetVibes or Google Personalized.

Tags: virtual desktop, VirtualDesktop, web desktop, WebDesktop

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ben said 12:49PM on 5-10-2006

It's weird that Brad Isaac is into this, since he's such a Pocket PC advocate. After all, if you're going to have access to the same system (be it a laptop or pda or whatever), why not keep things like a calendar, address book, and email archives offline, in case you're out of wi-fi range?

Brandon said 2:26PM on 5-10-2006

Reminds me of last years protopage. www.protopage.com

Adora said 12:52AM on 5-11-2006

I'm really going nuts integrating widgets from other sites. I have a tendency to keep a million different tabs open, and Fold helps me combine at least a few of them. I'm always on the lookout for new web applications, so I think I can say with some certainty to expect lots of user-submitted content to the developer's blog.

:: Lisa
:: adora [at] techslut [.] net

Brad Isaac said 7:30AM on 5-11-2006

I am into it because I'm into productivity. The idea where you can ditch your laptop (and Pocket PC) and go anywhere, log onto the Net and have your 'home' virtual workstation would be very efficient.

Trae said 6:53PM on 5-11-2006

I've personally been toying with Goowy to do all of this for me. It's a clean design and the integrated storage space gives it an added bonus.

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