The Server Guy

I recently ran across eyeOS, a web based operating system. It’s not a new idea, but it’s the first implementation I’ve seen that actually seems like it may be functional. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and I have to admit I’m pretty impressed. EyeOS doesn’t have every application you might want to use but they have quite a few different applications available already.

I suppose some of you may not be familiar with a web based OS. The idea is simple. Think of all the things your computer does and move all of that to a web page. All you need is a web browser to access it. The idea is quite intriguing. Imagine walking up to a public kiosk with Internet access. You type in a web address, log in, and all of your programs and documents are available to you… all with no need to take anything with you. I know I would love to have something like this available.

If course this whole concept relies on having web access of some form, but really where do you travel anymore that doesn’t have some sort of access available to you if you don’t have your own computer. If this concept sounds even remotely interesting to you I urge you to take a look. It really is interesting stuff.

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I imagine a lot of you don’t even really know what Web 2.0 is. Don’t worry I didn’t really have a firm grasp on it either, until I looked it up. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say:

A phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004^[1], refers to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

So, it’s just the latest bunch of web sites/services we’ve been seeing. For example, social networking sites, blogs, online tools, etc are all examples of Web 2.0. Basically any application that gains from being online or exists entirely online could be considered part of the Web 2.0 definition.

On Nov 11, 2006 John Markoff posted an article which coined the term Web 3.0. Basically the article boils Web 3.0 down to the ability to ask a question and have a computer interpret it and provide a relevant response.

For example, lets say I want to go on a vacation. There are all sorts of services online to provide for the different parts of planning the trip from booking flights to finding activities at the location of my choice. It can take significant amounts of time to search for then book everything related to the vacation with all of these separate tools though.

With Web 3.0 a person would be able to tell their computer, “I want to go on a vacation somewhere with nice beaches for less than $2500, and oh yeah, I have a four year old child I’ll be bringing,” and after a few moments the computer would produce several suggested vacation packages.

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Dell seems to have quietly started selling AMD based laptops on their website. I haven’t seen or heard about any press release relating to this recent change. There has been news over the past few weeks that Dell and AMD had struck a deal and Dell would be selling AMD based systems, but there was no date or information on specific computer models that would carry the AMD processors.
The Dell laptops seem to be priced to get their initial sales numbers up. The Inspiron 1501 starts at $549 and is quite reasonably configured at that price. It will be interesting to see how this change works out for Dell.

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