Clap on, clap off - Splashtop!

Rothman writes today about his experience in working in the consumer market with how hard it is to do things that should be simple. He writes how ease of use is a dream and complicated is the norm.  Mike talks about how making it look easy is a magic skill that the only the most successful people and products do.  Of course Mike than takes a swipe at NAC and DLP not being easy enough, but I am not going to take the bait on that one.  What I do want to tell you about is a new company called Splashtop.

Splashtop solves one of the most basic ease of use issues we all have with our computers.  How long it takes to boot.  How many times have we had to do a quick task or just needed to look something up, only to wait literally minutes for first the bios and then that stupid Windows logo to disappear, only to wait even longer for all of our bloatware start up programs to load?  Splashtop solves the problem.  You can launch into a web enabled desktop literally within seconds.  Check out the You Tube video attached to see for yourself.  What a great idea.  It is chimp simple easy to use and gets you up and doing what you need to do right away. Splashtop is the brainchild of Mark Lee and some other really sharp folks. Mark has a long history of success and Splashtop looks like another winner. 

Splashtop actually is installed on the motherboard from what I know and takes advantage of virtualization technology.  By not booting the OS, it offers secure web surfing and even has a green angle, allowing people to shut their computers off more often. In the future as Google Apps and Microsoft Live and others bring more functionalit to web apps, more and more of the tasks we perform really don't need us to boot the whole OS.  Splashtop could be just the ticket.  You can also read more about Splashtop at their blog.