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Web Desktops

As part of my ongoing investigation into online collaboration and remote working tools I have assembled a list of web based desktops.
These give you the ability to log in to ‘your system’ from any web enabled computer, some allow you to share as well. Not just useful for collaboration but also for hot desking. A problem I’m facing at the moment is having machines at work, home and visiting client sites, yeah I have a laptop, but I still regularly hop between three different machines using two different OSs (XP and Ubuntu, I have OS X as well but it doesn’t get the usage it deserves, It needs some more RAM before I can upgrade to Leopard).

So whatever kind of machine hopping, hotdesking, cybernomad you are these may be of interest, you can access your desktop from wherever; Internet cafes, hotel access points, home, work or at a clients.

http://www.jooce.com/
http://g.ho.st/
http://desktoptwo.com/
http://www.startforce.com (this doesn’t explain itself very well, but it is an online desktop!)

There are many others, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtop for a full comparison.

Your obviously not going to be fully tooled up as you would be on your own machine… yet.