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Online Ajax Pages The New Web Desktop?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-me-know-when-my-os-is-in-me-brain dept.

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?"

8 of 266 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Buzzword alert by BrynM · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Online _____ is the new ____!" If there was some way to monetize every time I hear this.... It would be the new money. Thus, online bullshit is the new bullshit - only digitized!

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  2. Re:Buzzword alert by MadJo · · Score: 2, Funny

    It makes a great drinking game...

    pass that bottle again!

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  3. There is one true thing about the internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    And that is someone will proclaim THE REVOLUTION THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING FOREVER at least once every three months

  4. Re:Buzzword alert by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your lack of respect for exciting Web 2.0 user experiences is disturbing!

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  5. Is this the wave of the future? by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny
    Is this the wave of the future?

    No.

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  6. Scary news by Exaton · · Score: 3, Funny

    "roaming Ajax desktops"

    I swear that statement would scare my mother.

  7. False premise. Next article! by Max+Threshold · · Score: 3, Funny
    "With our existing models for operating environments aging badly . . ."

    sh has aged very well, thank you very much.

  8. Re:On the whole they are closer to solution. by shmlco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry. There's always Flash...

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