Nov 15, 2007 0
me online
Over the last few months, the applications I use on a daily basis are migrating even further online than I suspected that they would. Its really quite impressive the ideas people are coming up with for tools, entertainment, information, etc. This is lending more and more credence to my old Red Hat co-workers ideas about an online desktop. If you don’t know what that means, take a moment to go through the tour of what they have so far. Unfortunately for me, I am currently an Ubuntu user and don’t have time to build the desktop and all its dependencies but perhaps I will find a moment to load Fedora 8 on another machine and give it a look.
Yesterday and today I’ve been playing with iwantsandy.com which is an inventive “personal assistant” the CTO of O’Reilly has cooked up. Its had some bumps with traffic but the functionality is pretty great. I can see me using an online desktop and getting a little mugshot pop-up of reminders from Sandy, just as easily as I can see myself using Google Docs and Google Notebook on the same desktop. I have held a somewhat skeptical eye to mugshot so far, but the online desktop is a great idea. It also can lend itself well to mugshot and perhaps make it more useful to me in the long run.
I’ll be watching with anticipation!