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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?"

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  1. Ajax is the new Desktop by dangitman · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just like my penis is the new, trendy lollipop for young women.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.