Integrated platform as I see it

Mayank proposed a question "Is Integrated Platform Web 3.0?", on his post he described integrated platform and how cool it is, here is part of it

I mean if I am using an application like latest news on my igoogle homepage, I shall be able to pull it out and place it on my desktop. I would surely like those apps that I use daily to be on my desktop working when I boot up my machine. Also, if I do some work on my computer and want it to be accessible from anywhere else, then I generally use email to save it over the wev. Now, what would be cool is that if I save that file on my desktop, then it automatically gets synched with a database on web and thus becomes accesible from anywhere. Thus, difference between storing one's file on desktop and storing it on web is blurred.

Mayank - Is Integrated Platform Web 3.0?

He also mentioned an approach towards it which is prism from Mozilla Labs, which is a great approach, it could convert your web apps like Facebook for example to a separate application with it's own shortcut on the desktop and no browser bordering it.

That's cute this really is the future of the web but I was thinking, why don't operating systems themselves integrate web apps in there systems just like desktop apps? why don't they show them just as desktop apps, just as you explore your hard disk to click on anything.exe or anything.app (for Apple users) we should explore the web just like our hard disks and click on anything.php (or maybe a new extension is created for this issue ".web" for example) and this application open just like any desktop application free of browser borders and has it's own icon, this truly maybe web 3.0

It's weird yesterday, we was impressed that web apps are replacing desktop apps in their functionalities, today we want web apps to really replace desktop apps in there place and get out of browsers borders.

Maybe Apple or Microsoft need to apply this quickly before OS's themselves become web apps.

October 28, 2007, 2:16 AM | User experience , Web News , Web2.0

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