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G.ho.st Virtual Computing Adds API for Web-Based Apps

ReadWriteWeb  May 27 09

A fabulous, ambitious virtual operating system, G.ho.st launched at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco two years ago. The browser-based computers allow users to leave their desktop, files, and applications in the Amazon-hosted cloud and access them from just about any place or device with an internet connection.

G.ho.st, which already implements well-known applications such as Google Docs, Meebo, Last.fm, and Pandora, has now announced an open API for developers, allowing them to add any web-based application as an integrated part of the G.ho.st virtual desktop.

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According to the site's developers' page, "The API is designed to be very light weight with a simple convenient approach to launching third-party apps by a URL and passing data as parameters to that URL. Full story...

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