News
November 5, 2007 - Web 2.0: Enigma or Opportunity?
Article about Web 2.0 that includes extensive interview with Sapotek CEO, Joshua Rand.
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October 31, 2007 - NaviSite Helps Deliver Sapotek SaaS
Managed hosting provider NaviSite announced on Wednesday it has been selected by open source Web applications provider Sapotek to enable delivery of its online desktop in a software as a service model.
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October 22, 2007 - John Havens of BlogTalkRadio Interviews Joshua D. Rand, CEO of Sapotek
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October 1, 2007 - Sapotek’s free Browser-based desktop OS (complete with apps) launches this month
While in New York City last week for Digital Life, I stole some time to head down to TechSpace in Greenwich Village (the “Silicon Valley of Manhattan”) where I interviewed (on video) Joshua Rand, co-founder and president of startup Sapotek
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September 18, 2007 - Computer in the Cloud: Online desktop systems could bridge the digital divide
Cloud computing--the idea of relying on Web-based applications and storing data in the "cloud" of the Internet--has long been touted as a way to do business on the road. Now software companies are making entire Web-based operating systems.
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August 24, 2007 - Sapotek nearing 1.0 Release of Desktoptwo
Version 1.0 of DesktopTwo will be released in the next few weeks according to Sapotek's CEO Joshua Rand. A beta version of the virtual desktop software has been available for the last year.
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June 21, 2007 - Sapotek Launches Free Software Project
Sapotek Inc., the company behind the free online desktops Desktoptwo and Computadora.de, today launched its most ambitious project to date, Sapodesk, a free software community dedicated to the development of user-friendly, open source web applications.
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June 4, 2007 - Desktoptwo. Wow! Desktoptwo from Sapotek, a very compelling attempt at a Web desktop
In Gearhead some time ago I spent a couple of columns discussing Web desktops. While most of these are probably still best considered experimental, one or two of them show real promise not because they will supersede regular local PC desktops but because they can act as a useful and effective "home away from home." A new one that is perhaps the most compelling attempt at a Web desktop is Desktoptwo from Sapotek.
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May 25, 2007 - Desktoptwo: Your Desktop Away From Home
There are a lot of services out there that allow you to create customized home pages, complete with RSS feeds, e-mail, news headlines, personal notes, and more, but Desktoptwo is different. It's a fully functional desktop, complete with a 1GB "hard drive" on which to store data, a POP-based e-mail client, an RSS-reader, an MP3 player, a calendar app, an IM client, and more.
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May 24, 2007 - Web as Desktop: Create an Online Desktop with Desktoptwo
Desktoptwo is an online desktop ("webtop") that is robust and very easy to use. Currently in beta, Desktoptwo is chocked full of useful features including an easy to use 1GB hard drive, RSS reader, a POP mail reader, MP3 player, calendar, IM, and more. Desktoptwo is free, flash-based, and very responsive.
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February 6, 2007 - Desktoptwo account is like an office that will follow you
Forget about whether Windows or the Mac OS are better. In the future, much of your computing is going to be online. Desktoptwo is one of the sites that is pointing the way.
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January 16, 2007 - Don't have your own computer? You can have a Desktoptwo
Frequently praised as one of the best in the Web Desktop category, the interface design of Desktoptwo alone goes a long way toward convincing the skeptics that an on demand webtop is something that people will actually use.
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October 20, 2006 - Web 2.0 Takes the Office out of the Office
"They are working to create a Web-based desktop that mimics the look and feel of a PC's and will ultimately provide the foundation of Web-based network operating system."
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August 28, 2006 - Emily Chang of eHUB Interviews Joshua Rand, CEO of Sapotek
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August 21, 2006 - More than 10,000 Desktoptwo Registrations in Three Weeks
Sapotek today announced that the first beta version of Desktoptwo has already attracted more than 10,000 subscribers since its release three weeks ago on August 1, 2006.
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August 14, 2006 - How to build a Startup out of nothing
(Business 2.0 Magazine) - Joshua Rand flies to Mexico on business every few weeks but rarely takes a laptop. Instead, he uses the virtual-desktop software made by his startup, Sapotek, based in New York and Toluca, Mexico.
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August 9, 2006 - Desktoptwo making waves in Japan
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August 7, 2006 - Desktoptwo offers a powerful web desktop for free
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August 7, 2006 - Desktoptwo, a slick suite in a browser
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August 1, 2006 - Sapotek Unveils Free Web-Based Desktop Available To All
Sapotek Inc., the company that created the first Web-based desktop of its kind in Spanish, Computadora.de (http://computadora.de), today announced the launch of a new, enhanced version of its world class desktop in English, Desktoptwo (http://desktoptwo.com). Building on the success of Computadora.de, which has generated well over 100,000 subscriptions from around the world, Desktoptwo will expand Sapotek's global reach by allowing anyone with access to the Internet to have a free web-based desktop for managing personal information, online document collaboration, interactive communication, music and more.
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July 19, 2006 - Sapotek Welcome and Thank You
Today brings the start of a new era for Sapotek, and while words cannot adequately express the excitement we now feel, we'll give it a shot anyway since we can't contain ourselves.
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