Month: July 2006

The dangers of an online only life

Dave Rosenberg writes in his InfoWorld blog about the downsides of an online only office life.  I too am experiencing something similar.  I cancelled my Verizon DSL on the same day I ordered broadband service from my cable provide, Patriot Media.  Verizon assured me that the DSL would be disconnected in 3-5 business days so I felt comfortable waiting a week for the cable guy.  Well, the day after cancelling Verizon DSL my DSL line was dead and two days later I am feeling the difficulties of an online life.

I have not checked my Google email or calendar in two days and I feel lost.

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Online Wordprocessing

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Writely - Process Words with your Browser

Imagine Word, but as an ajax browser application that was free. And allowed tagging of documents. And you could set reader permissions for each document you create and allow others to edit the document, or just read it. That’s what Writely is.

I have been thinking about this a lot recently.  I have found myself using my web browser to do everything in my computing life and expect more and more.  I use Google Calendar, Google Talk, Gmail, Writely and Google Spreadsheet for my day to day activities.  Even this blog post is being doing from a Firefox web browser extension (Peformancing).  I find this allows me to use whatever computing platform is available (OS X, Windows, Linux) to get my work done.  How soon before I not longer need the use of a desktop app?  What does this mean for rich client applications like Word and Excel?  I never did need all the functionality of Word or Excel.

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