http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/08/02/online_desktop/ because technology is just another ecosystem Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:30:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/08/02/online_desktop/#comment-319076 tecosystems » Cool Gigs: EveryBlock and LiTL Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:50:09 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/08/02/online_desktop/#comment-319076 [...] You may know Havoc from his time at Red Hat, or from his contributions to the GNOME community, but I’m most interested in his vision of the Online Desktop. Probably because it’s one that I strongly agree with. [...] [...] You may know Havoc from his time at Red Hat, or from his contributions to the GNOME community, but I’m most interested in his vision of the Online Desktop. Probably because it’s one that I strongly agree with. [...]

]]> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/08/02/online_desktop/#comment-137050 Mike Dolan Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:29:12 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/08/02/online_desktop/#comment-137050 Hate to be the pin to pop the balloon, but I'm skeptical this will ever really take off in the next 5 yrs. Over time we may get there (I'd love to see it happen), but things like data (which I'll call documents, spreadsheets, chat xml logs, pictures, audio) need to become a service in the process and need a hosting service. That raises all kinds of issues: privacy, security, online access... proprietary (who owns the data). I'd love to see it happen but right now I'd have to play the devil's advocate card and just hope someone can build a way to "fix the glitch". Hate to be the pin to pop the balloon, but I’m skeptical this will ever really take off in the next 5 yrs. Over time we may get there (I’d love to see it happen), but things like data (which I’ll call documents, spreadsheets, chat xml logs, pictures, audio) need to become a service in the process and need a hosting service. That raises all kinds of issues: privacy, security, online access… proprietary (who owns the data). I’d love to see it happen but right now I’d have to play the devil’s advocate card and just hope someone can build a way to “fix the glitch”.

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