Browsers replacing desktops
We are facing a crazy period of Web 2.0 killer apps, every one week 2 or 3 new very cool apps are announced, some of them are bought by Google, some are bought by Yahoo and the rest kept to their owners, I like to mention some of the very cool web 2.0 apps I discovered through those few last weeks.
Netvibes.com is one of those apps that collect all your data in one interface were you can record a note and keep your bookmarks, reed all your feeds and even take a look on a flickr feed all in one flexible customizable interface.
Backpack another app from 37 signals The creators of Ruby on Rails framework With David Heinemeier Hansson and one of the companies that acted quickly and filled the web with great useful Web 2.0 apps. After the success of Basecamp which is the perfect solution for project management over the web, they done it again this time on the personal level by introducing Backpack which make it very easy to organize your life by setting to-do lists, notes & much more.
meebo is an in-browser IM client for AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber, Gtalk & MSN.
The best benefit from this bunch of Web 2.0 apps is what Andy Budd call it device independency, the ability to work on your PC then use any other PC in any other place and open your same netvibes page and keep track of your projects progress through Basecamp, check your personal to-do list on Backpack while connected to all your IM accounts through meebo.
I heard long time ago from some technologist that browsers are going to replace computer desktops and I keep thinking when will that happened. Now after this new state of mind called Web 2.0 I think it is happening now and happening very quickly.
November 26, 2005, 01:07 AM | Technology , Web2.0
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