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Thank you for writing about G.ho.st

G.ho.st® is revolutionizing personal computing by offering every person in the world a free Virtual Computer (VC) accessible from anywhere, in a Web page. G.ho.st (pronounced “ghost”) is an acronym of Global hosted operating system and is written as the web address “G.ho.st”. The G.ho.st Virtual Computer includes almost everything you would expect in a physical computer – a desktop, file storage (like a disk drive) and a wide variety of third-party Web applications (apps). G.ho.st is hosted in a professional data center and accessed by users around the world using any web browser or mobile phone, with no need for install or sync.

G.ho.st® unique technology and team are penetrating the Wall (No Wall™).
G.ho.st virtual computer is located in the cloud and the user can posses any physical device.

Also we are called G.ho.st because of the unique collaboration between the Palestinians and the Israeli working with each others around the real wall which is around 400 mils long.

Please keep on login to G.ho.st at (http://g.ho.st) and let us know your feedback at http://forums.g.ho.st

Thanks

Montasser Abdellatif
MarCom Manager
G.ho.st Inc

Montasser, thanks for the spontaneous marketing blurb, and the political side of g\.ho\.st does add an interesting angle, although I'm not sure it is either (a) relevant to the use of the service or (b) inspires the average user with confidence that it will be secure and stable over the long term (a great many computer virus <i>seem</i> to originate in your geographic region).  Both are facts I think I, as a user, would rather not know, if you know what I mean.

Dig: To be my desktop of choice, I have to know it will be there when I need it, and so I'd want to be assured the the longevity of the founding organization; already this is a <i>corporate</i> and <i>trademarked</i>  thing that also has rules governing even the lexigraphic representation of it's n.a.me, and I find that worrisome -- my initial prototype for the Cubic Computing model was based on open standards, open architecture, opensource components and no centralized single point of <del>failure</del><ins>control</ins>, so that is another strike against you.  A third strike may be this immutable proprietariness combined with the software apps: it does not appear to be possible to add other applications to the desktop unless they are gated  by the proprietary masters, and what that means is the only things allowed on this desktop are those things envisioned and approved by its masters.  To be <u>my</u> desktop, I'd  want that master to be <u>me</u>, if you catch my meaning.

And, sadly, that's three strikes.  I hung around a poked at the desktop a bit but found no really compelling reason to return.  It does not integrate with <u>my</u> digital existance but offers a parallel  universe where I know no one and can find nothing.  I do still like the idea of one digital space regardless of device of access (the blackberry view is limited to fetch only,  but at least it is there) I had hoped it might be the salvation for those of us who live behind national censorship policies (in Canada Internet censorship is not law, just 'policy' of the corporate monopoly providers) but instead what I found was a nice interface on a computer with not much interesting software.

I do still think the platform has its uses, and I can appreciate the comments I read in one review where subscribers in the Philippenes expressed enthusiastic endorsement for the platform mostly because few of them could hope to afford that much computing power in their home machines.  It is an excellent piece of work, the interface is snappy and familiar (at least on the PC side) and the allotments are generous. I just don't see yet how it can be fit into my world.

What I'd aimed for with the Cubic Computer was a persistent state desktop delivered via the openNX protocol; the disadvantage was the lack of sound support (possible but too much trouble) and the uniformity of the interface across devices (has advantages but on the blackberry was too tiny to be useful). I used Linux so as to make the platform openly extensible; anyone could write or obtain any Linux/Xorg based software, upload it into <i>their</i> space, and freely use that software.  Keep in mind that the uploaded software might be doing things deemed inadmissable by management or local governments, but it is not the place of the OS platform to be the political policy maker, that is the domain for the government, the courts and the police to decide.  As open standard and linux based, there was no need to inflict a new email address on  anyone, they could simply hook their imap-service into the local reader (optionally in read-copy mode so as to preserve the original source), ditto with their IM be that AIM or GTalk or IRC or whatever protocol fits <i>their</i> use-case.