Almost everyone has a personal email address (or two or ten) and by far most of them are free accounts at AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail or Google. We all love our own email accounts at these providers because we can access them from anywhere, the user interfaces are great and we simply trust that our old email messages will always be there. Google Docs, Zoho and other applications like Basecamp have enabled us to move more applications to the Web. So it should be kind of expected that our own desktops, the place where we save our files, should be available to us any time we’re connected to the Internet. Desktoptwo is a virtual desktop with the goal of making you completely computer, OS and browser independent. Desktoptwo offers all the basic applications that one needs on a desktop like email, a notepad, an address book and an MP3 player. It has a desktop-like feel and gives you a taste of what our desktops could become.

Now, I think that I am actually ready to give up my desktop, but I’m not quite comfortable to do it the Deskktoptwo way. It’s an intriguing solution, but somehow it seems too old school and I don’t think it’s how we’re going to get rid of our desktops. But it worth checking out and knowing about.