Webtop in the clouds

AUSTIN, TEXAS: He claims to sell dreams. Quiz him on it and Sreelaj John will talk about his venture iDuple. “The word iDuple means ‘I sell dreams.' It aggregates web services scattered across the Internet pursuant to this agreement one platform,” he explains.

Essentially, the iDuple Webtop is a web desktop that originated from the concept of a web-based windows environment. Windows is a very familiar environment for a user, and building an application that functions specifically like Windows will at any rate improve the user experience, which in turn will increase productivity, believe its creators. Clearly, simplicity is a buzzword. Sharing files here only requires the twin skills of drag and drop.

Sun Startup Essentials has granted its blessings for the team's latest offering — the Internet-enabled iDuple tablet with just a web browser. Designed to connect to a remote server running a virtual operating system, this tablet that has no hard drive will work on the cloud computing concept, with each user assigned 50 GB of storage in the clouds. Costing much lower than the average tablet, it's been designed with a touch screen and boots in five second.

They have built applications just as Disk Drives, Calendar, RSS Manager, Sticky Notes, Notepads, Document Viewers/Editors, Email Customers and Instant Messengers on the webtop platform. “For enterprises with data security concerns, we will provide branded installations so that they can have their own private networks or intranet platform,” he says.