Jolicloud - Meet some Joliclouders

Veronica Belmont

Jolicloud ID: Veronica

What do you do?: Technology and gaming video host
URL of your blog: veronicabelmont.com
Twitter username: @Veronica
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: Kevin Rose!
What is your netbook?: HP Mini 1000
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Twitter, Gmail, Boxee, Google Reader, Dropbox
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Simple
For how long and how often do you use Jolicloud?: It's on my secondary machine, so a few times a week! Usually when I'm traveling.
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: More social features!

Peder Burgaard

Jolicloud ID: pburgaard

What do you do?: Chiefanalyst / Manager, International Network @ Innovation Lab
URL of your blog: www.ilab.dk
Twitter username: @PederBurgaard
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: I met Tariq in Copenhagen speaking at New Media Days. We hung out and later I learned about his amazing project.
What is your netbook?: Compaq Mini 700EF
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Skype, Google Doc, Facebook, Dropbox, Twitter
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Exquisite
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: Greater offline application support; additional social features then downloading new applications to discuss updates etc; Open application platform / app store; mobile portability of applications; Social ID plugin to Linkedin, Facebook etc. to lower entrance barriers.

Robin Wauters

Jolicloud ID: robinwauters

What do you do?: I blog and test cool stuff.
URL of your blog: http://techcrunch.com/author/robin
Twitter username: @robinwauters
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: We posted information about Jolicloud very early on TechCrunch, and at a later stage Tariq Kirm asked me to become an early alpha tester, which I happily accepted.
What is your netbook?: Acer Aspire ONE
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Chrome, Firefox, Skype, Yammer, Twitter
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Digital nomad-friendly
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: I'd like to see Jolicloud set up some sort of central application store for paid software that users can tap into to equip their netbook with those too, apart from free ones.

Mark Hirsch

Jolicloud ID: mhd47

Twitter username: @mhd47
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: From @scobleizer during a lunch with him. He introduced me to Tariq.
What is your netbook?: HP Mini 1000
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Facebook, Twitter, Skype
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Slick
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: Something more like netvibes as the home screen, pulling in other social networks into one dashboard.

Jasmine Singh

Jolicloud ID: jupigare

What do you do?: Student (San Jose State University)
Twitter username: @jupigare
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: Tech blogs (most notably Engadget)
What is your netbook?: Asus EeePC 1000HE (black)
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Firefox, Google Reader, Songbird, Pidgin, EverNote
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Convenient
For how long and how often do you use Jolicloud?: I've been using it as my primary operating system (several hours a day) since I installed it almost a month ago.
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: More apps! I love the selection so far, but I'd like to see TweetDeck or other Adobe AIR-based apps make the list someday.

Jacopo Gio

Jolicloud ID: jacopogio

What do you do?

Own Business

URL of your blog

jolicloudexperience.blogspot.com ;-)

Twitter username

@jacopogio

How did you hear about Jolicloud?

Tariq

What is your netbook?

Dell Mini 9

What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?

Netvibes, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Firefox

What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?

EasySimple

What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?

Direct opening page at booting
Reducing page option
Size typo option / zoom
No duplicate of icons in left upper menu
Choose size of thumb icon for applis
Change position of applis on my Jolicloud
Some essential non-web based applis as light Image editor (irvanview)...

Liam Sherritt

Jolicloud ID: NaughtyKP

What do you do?: Student and Web developer
URL of your blog: naughtykp.blogspot.com
Twitter username: @NaughtyKP
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: After reading about chrome OS on engadget, I came across some jolicloud screenshots. My interest was ignited and soon enough I found myself filling in the email subscription and within 24 hours, I was admitted into the program.
What is your netbook?: I'm not sure if you could consider it a true netbook, but I'm running jolicloud on my Toshiba Portege M750 Tablet Notebook.
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Twitter, Facebook, Google Talk, Chrome and Gmail
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Connected
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: I'd like to see the social aspect of the dashboard extended, so we can send messages to other followers it's a great way to suggest things to other users. I'd also like to see a twitter app built in. I'd like to see better touch screen calibration tools. There were none available on the fresh install, and it took a while to get the drivers to install. Sound Support, I got no sound. Which stopped me using alot of the music web apps. It'd be great if there was an option to restore the system to an earlier state. After some stupid mistakes, I suffered a large amount of data loss and was unable to find anything to recover it with. JC also needs a better IM client. Pidgin just doesn't cut it.

Jolicloud has a lot of potential and I am very impressed.

Baptiste Cadiou

Jolicloud ID: bcadiou

What do you do?: Computer Graphics and Community Management at Canal+ Newsroom
URL of your blog: http://ready2.info
Twitter username: @Cadiou
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: From my friend Tariq's Tweets.
What is your netbook?: Samsung NP-NC-10
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Evolution, GIMP, Quake Live, Seesmic Desktop, VLC
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Light
For how long and how often do you use Jolicloud?: 6 months ago, I use it everyday at work
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: An even more sexier interface ^^

Doug Belshaw

Jolicloud ID: dajbelshaw

What do you do?: Director of E-Learning
URL of your blog: http://dougbelshaw.com/blog
Twitter username: @dajbelshaw
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: There was a lot of buzz online when it was launched, but I think it was via a site linked to on Techmeme such as Engadget or Lifehacker.
What is your netbook?: I've had several, but I'm currently running Jolicloud on a cheap Acer Aspire One I picked up on eBay for less than £100.
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: In no particular order: Jackson Pollock (my 2 year-old likes 'drawing'!), VLC(for videos on-the-move), Google Chrome (lighter than Firefox for netbook usage!), Spotify (I'm a Premium subscriber - I no longer use CDs/MP3s!) and Dropbox (to share files between machines and with others effortlessly).
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Awesome
For how long and how often do you use Jolicloud?: I've been using Jolicloud for about 6 months. I mainly use it either when I'm not in my study with my Macbook Pro or when I'm on the train, or out and about.
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: Much more emphasis on community and open standards rather than (only) being a closed 'app store'.

ch3mical fusi0n

Jolicloud ID: ch3mi0n

What do you do?: Linux System Admin (currently full time student)
URL of your blog: http://ch3mi0nix.blogspot.com
Twitter username: @ch3mi0n
How did you hear about Jolicloud?: I'm sure it was when I was researching other netbook specific Linux distributions that I came across Jolicloud, though I don't recall if I came across the official website first or read about it on some blog.
What is your netbook?: Asus Eee PC 1000
What are your top five applications on Jolicloud?: Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Reader, Pidgin
What single word would you use to describe Jolicloud?: Innovative
For how long and how often do you use Jolicloud?: Since Nov. 23, and ever since I have been using it daily as my primary OS.
What would you like to see in the future in Jolicloud?: I have personally created extra menus to break up the "Internet" section in the netbook-launcher, since most joli apps end up in there (it was getting cluttered), so for instance I now have a "Social" menu group in addition to "Internet" where I moved most of the social networking apps like facebook, twitter, etc. I would love to see Jolicloud do this officially and even expand on the idea a bit more, perhaps. It would be great to have more specific categories to make it easier to find apps based on what they do (social, communication, etc).