Cloudtop: a workspace for the cloud

Authors:
Hubert Pham;Justin Mazzola Paluska;Robert C. Miller;Steve Ward
Affiliations:
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium adjunct on User interface software and technology
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Even as users rely more on the web for their computing needs, they continue to depend on a desktop-like area for quick access to in-use resources. The traditional desktop is file-centric and prone to clutter, making it suboptimal for use in a web-dominated world. This paper introduces Cloudtop, a browser plugin that offers a lightweight workplace for temporary items, optimized around the idea that its contents originate from and will ultimately return to the web. Cloudtop improves upon the desktop by 1) implementing a simple, time-based notebook metaphor for managing clutter, 2) capturing and bundling extensible metadata for web resources, and 3) providing a platform for greater interface uniformity across sites.