Jooce.com: Possibly the Coolest Webapp EVER!

I walked into Josh’s office yesterday afternoon and I was confused…

“Did you get a Mac?” I asked, looking at what looked like a Mac operating system on his screen.
Josh: “No. Its a desktop.”
Me: “But its not windows.”
Josh: “No. Its in my browser.”
Me: “What?!”
Josh: “Exactly.”

Jooce is a desktop on the Internet. It is defined as a “portable desktop” that can store pretty much anything, with no file limit. Photos, music, files, you got it. Its like a USB key that won’t get lost.

As a commuter to school, this tool will be my savior. No longer are the days where I need to email papers to myself, or copy and paste out of Google Docs and get frustrated wasting 5 minutes of valuable school time trying to reformat the paper the way I had it. It’s there as a file, all I have to do is download to whatever machine I’m on at the moment.

But wait, there’s more!

This funky Flash application comes with a music player so that you don’t even need to download your music files to listen to them. Click on it and it plays. Its that easy. You can still download it, but why bother, it’s there.  There is also an integrated instant messaging application that works with the usual suspects (AOL, Yahoo, etc).

Another very cool feature is that it has two different screens, one called the desktop, and one called the joocetop. The desktop is for your private files. Files that you don’t want to share with anyone. However, the joocetop has a mentality similar to myspace or facebook where your information is out there for the world to see. On your joocetop you can put music you want to share, files for people to download, or great pics that you can donate to friends. There’s even a YouTube link so you can post your favorite videos!

You may be asking, whats the catch? If there is one, I haven’t found it yet. Its a little bit slow on initial load, but hey, what do you expect for free?  If you haven’t already, you should definitely check it out.