This is semi-exciting. These guys have what on first look looks to be a fairly usable photo-editing application that runs on the server side. This sort of thing is what they used to say the future of computing was, and this is what Gizmo Richards says the future of computing IS, but I think they’re both (all) wrong, though it would be neat-o-peachy keen to see more of this type of stuff if it is (a) free and (b) good.

My take on fauxto (FOE-toe) is that it’s probably at the level of something like Photoshop 2.0 or so. Layers, some filters, but not the crazy stuff that goes on nowadays with PS that most people don’t in fact need. Seems to me to be better than most of the photo-editing freeware I’ve seen around and they seem to be working feverishly to improve it.

What the future of computing IS, if you care, is peer-to-peer distributed file storage/sharing and probably also peer-to-peer distributed processing too. Also, robots that get sick of doing housework and begin instead destroying everything.