Online Ajax Pages The New Web Desktop?

SphereOfInfluence writes "With our existing models for operating environments aging badly, how do we manage our information and software as we get increasingly mobile and short on attention? In a ZDNet piece, Dion Hinchcliffe discusses the rise of the new dynamic, online, roaming Ajax desktops like Netvibes, Live.com, Protopage, and Pageflakes. Will concerns about privacy and reliability kill these or is this the wave of the future?"

Comments

Roar

[Mike Savior]

I must be the only person under the age of 25 who hates the advent of all this "Web 2.0" Ajax stuff. I grew up around computers despite being young now, even as a small child, and they were more of a tinkering toy than a game machine or a tool to get on the internet in the mid-90's. I witnessed the rise and fall of the first internet wave, I played with alot of technologies when they were brand new, laughed at the stupidity of those who waited out in line to get Windows 95. Even the browser wars, but I digress, because I guess these things aren't important.

I suppose the meaning of this comment is that the ugly webpages and first gigantic annoying ads, and Cnet's pages, all that, were just plain old HTML (mostly). Why can't we go back to that? Just content, no neat looking flash, no CSS layouts that are manipulated just so, that when you scroll the page the colors kinda change. Provided these "technologies" are useful and they themselves aren't bad (maybe except flash), but their media overrated-ness and even their usability aggrevates me. Every time I go onto one of these new Web 2.0 sites it's like making yourself at home in a Windows install. Overwhelming, too many things to click. I guess I'm just old-fashioned and bitter. Or I want my scrolling marquees back.

Re:Privacy

[dangitman]

who is really going to want a remote desktop which governments can potentially access at their free will?

Suckers and Patriots. I hear there's one born every minute.