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Archive for September, 2007

Web apps rule!

September 28th, 2007  |  by Henrik  |  published in Blog, Conferences, Tips Galore | Comments (1)

Next week I am attending an interesting conference in London: FOWA The Future of Web Apps.

For me, web apps have quickly become a standard tool for most of my work the last two years, and I strongly believe that this is only the beginning.

After having used Google Docs, (I started with Writely long before they were acquired by Google), Remember the Milk (superior to-do list manager), Netvibes, and now lately Stixy (promising Swedish start-up, bulletin board online) I can no longer imagine going back to using local apps and local files.
Why?
- No more application updates
- No viruses in the files
- No backup problems
- No shuffling files with USB sticks
- No wondering “Is this the latest version of this file, or has my colleague changed anything?
- No more agony about having accidentally erased an important part of a document

and, most important:
- totally awesome for group work since several users can edit a document simultaneously
- easy to add or remove users with access to my documents

So I am surprised that not more people have realized this and started to use for example Google Docs. Today the also added presentations, so now you can do word processing, spreadsheets and slide presentations in the same web app, and export the files to Word, Excel or PowerPoint if you need.

But my hope is that The Future of Web Apps will be about the next step, there are many big opportunities in this area!


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