YouOS

YouOS is a very interesting thing… It lets you run an operating system whilst online. So if you are going on a business trip where you need data, yet do not have a laptop, you can store and share your data with whomever.

I find this very helpful when I need to write an essay, so I can have a spare copy. There are literally thousands of mini-programs you can easily add to your YouOS machine, such as YouMSN which lets you talk to your MSN buddies with YouOS.

I cannot say that YouOS is without its faults though. It is slow and takes up alot of CPU %. YouOS also can crash your web browser sometimes if you are doing to much at once. And I had trouble changing my long, confusing, and annoying password (the equivalent of 643uvg24895m72)

Other than the problems it has, I think that YouOS really shows off Web 2.0 with this remarkable achievement!

Speed 3/5

Design 4/5

Bitty Browser speed 5/5

Overall 4/5

Gabe Morris

Flock

Flock is a very interesting and unusual web browser… It is based on what a lot of people do, not off of what the CEO of Nokia uses the web for, but the average user. It does this in several ways… One being blog posting. Flock helps you easily use its integrated blog posting tool to post on your blog! This blog post is posted with Flock, and it is great! It lets you post to Blogger, LiveJournal, MySpace, TypePad, and WordPress!

Or if you don’t blog, do you store pictures online? Flock lets you do that too! By using either of the 2 most popular services PhotoBucket and Flickr. It even comes with a picture toolbar so you can drag-n-drop!

As with most FireFox based browsers, Flock has integrated RSS support. It also has that little search box in the top right hand corner of the screen so you can search the web.

Oh and I almost forgot another feature! Flock lets you share your bookmarks online with services like Del.Ic.Ious and Shadows!!!! How cool is that? Your blog isn’t getting enough unique hits? Star the page and share it with the world!

Smurfy isn’t it?

Speed 5/5

Design 4/5

Socialness 10/5!!!!!!

Security 4/5

Looks 4/5

Extention Compatibility 3/5 (several extentions have been redesigned specifically for Flock such as DownThemAll)