YouOS

Its been a while since something has really caught my interest, i must hand it to the folks at YouOS.com, they have done a marvelous job. Goto www.youos.com and give it a spin.

Prior to the Web 2.0 initiatives implementing an operating system using the web would have been unthinkable, but as with most of the applications based on Web 2.0 trend it would take more than great idea to get people to actually use the YouOS.

It was interesting to see how they managed to get so much done using basic HTML and javascript. On a related note the Microsoft intitiative of creating widgets(also referred to as gadgets) is also very interesting. See microsoftgadgets.com for details. Gadgets allow you to install the component to a page in your site seamlessly. Think of it as installing gadgets that porvide some level of service directly into you site - now thats super cool.