Web apps rule!
Next week I am attending an interesting conference in London: The Future of Web Apps, http://www.futureofwebapps.com/
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 Sixty (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!
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 Sixty (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!
1 Comments:
I couldn't agree more!
I still have my USB stick, but that has no files, only personalized applications, like Open Office, Firefox (settings synced through Google), GIMP, etc.
Other than that? Give me a browser, any browser, anywhere and one's ready to go.
Netvibes is my startpage, Google Docs, Google Calendar, storing some other files on Box.net, so they are easily shared through the mobile phone, or or automatically available in various widgets..
and on and on.
Too many of my friends have their data still stored on a computer, which is crazy IMNSHO.
The infoware should be separated from the hardware (and software!) and we're finally getting somewhere.
By Sin T., at September 30, 2007 2:03 PM
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