My name is Sol Lipman. I am honored to blog on behalf of the entire Splashtop team! It is with great excitement and anticipation that I write the first blog post on the new Splashtop website! While we’re still in stealth, I wanted to introduce myself and our parent company, DeviceVM. First of all, let me explain this stealth business. We are launching our first version of the Splashtop Desktop in the next few weeks. When we do launch, I will use this blog to give many more details, tips and isights into our products, technology and company. Until that time, I will pique your interest with posts about our company, the industry and random facts about myself (for example, I’ll bet you didn’t know that I play a pretty incredible blues harp!). I’ll also direct you to relevant posts about interesting happenings in our industry.
About myself
I live in Santa Cruz, CA and work in San Jose, CA at the Splashtop World Headquarters. I love drinking coffee, smoking the occasional cigar and playing with gadgets. I read Engadget and LiveDigitally every day and I’m always interested in all the cool, new Web 2.0 products on Techcrunch. I’m an avid Facebook User so feel free to add me, I’d love to be your friend (just don’t poke me too much).
How this blog is going to work
This blog is all about the community. I see my role as more of a blog “coordinator” as I feel it’s more about this being a 2-way communication method, not just from us to you. It is important for everyone to be able to participate in commenting on anything I write about, submitting stories that you think might be relevant and telling us how we can improve our product. If there is a subject you’d like to see on this blog, let me know - I’d be more than happy to write about it.
Other ways to interact with the Splashtop team
In addition to making comments about Splashtop on this blog, you can email me at: sol@devicevm.com.
Our website is: http://www.splashtop.com
You can contact us for support at: support@devicevm.com
Finally, if you have bugs, praises or suggestions please email info@splashtop.com
October 8th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I think this is the best thing since sliced cheese. We run a VoIP call center and in an effort to reduce cost as much as possible it would be awesome to have a machine without harddrive or cd rom that could boot right to a web browser. This is a perfect solution. Hopefully you are compatible with our Call Center software.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
i see great potential for this..
i’ve read the phoronix article. i think support for storage media is a must.
being able to download an ISO, of your favorite linux distro for example, store it on storage device, and eventualy be able to burn it..
or mount and install directly from it .
If this instant linux distro could support storage devices that wouldbe great.
i wonder what are the next planned steps for this little distro?
keep up the good work !
i will definatly buy this..
October 8th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
how about an rss feed for the blog.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
What sort of compatibility will splashtop have with say suse linux or helix?
October 9th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
This has to be the most significant development in PC technology in a decade .If you can maybe do something with AMD and get Splashtop on their MBs and get Google to integrate their current and future apps your company could gain enuf traction to get rid of this awful stagnant quasi monopoly. MS cant sell Vista cos its gone completely the wrong way and bloated out their OS, Splashtop is what they should have written, you will be subject to every dirty trick that MS can muster to get Splashtop marginalized. Penetrate the market faster than they can maneuver.
October 10th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Superb idea. don’t sell the IP too quickly - the long term gains might just outweigh the sacks of cash that’ll inevitably be hurled at you.
we were chatting about it in the office, and our wishlist also threw up the possibility of loading the main OS in the background and being able to print (if you can’t already).
good luck!
October 11th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
What scares me is your mention that Splashtop is available on “high-end” mobo. I do admit that this a very nice technology and will be very useful for people in various walks of life, but I hope you keep an open mind to support Windows and Linux from the hard-drive.
Good luck.
-GGR
November 24th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Sol and David,
You guys are doing a great job on the Splashtop! I just watched the video. It piques the imagination, but it would be nice if the video were longer, going to the lower levels and showing more detail. It needs more meat on dem bones.
I know that there were a tremendous number of technical hurdles that have been solved to get you to this point, and I wish you all the success in launching the product.
Terry