Workspot

[1][2] Founded by Greg Bryant, Gal Cohen, Kathy Giori, Curt Brune, Benny Soetarman, Bruce Robertson, and Asao Kamei,[3] in 1999, it was the first application service to make use of Virtual Network Computing.

[5] Workspot won Linux Journal's Best Web Application award for 2000.

[6][7] Badly hit by the dotcom crash, it ceased activity by 2005.

[8] Workspot was based in downtown Palo Alto, California during the dotcom boom, and funded its free desktop service through wireless contracting: they may have been the first mobile web app shop, involved in creating the first mobile apps for Google, eBay, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Metro Traffic etc., as well as client-server software for OmniSky and Palm.

[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Workspot released AES encryption patches for VNC.