Online Ajax "desktops" try to change the rules of the game
Dion Hinchcliffe posted at the ZDNet Blogs an article titled Online Ajax "desktops" try to change the rules of the game, about the AJAX Home pages and their vision as web 2.0 applications. Now that we can do almost anything with RSS and other syndication formats from reading news, finding jobs, calendars, contacts, email, weather ... you can find also more applications such notes, documents ... and we can expect more if there is robust API to extend them with web services.
As the Web matures into a richly intertwined ecosystem of shared content and open services, what some call The Web As Platform, some innovative companies are beginning to offer potentially disruptive products that leverage the Web's growing "platformness". Increasing in popularity in particular are what some people call Ajax desktops, or personalized start pages. Well exemplified by Microsoft's Live.com, but also by the likes of the popular Protopage and Netvibes, the interest in these online desktops is being driven by a confluence of factors.
But I was wondering if is it time to talk about AJAX Desktops ? I usually call them AJAX Home pages, but switching to "Desktops" This is the game and what Web 2.0 is trying to do : Move the desktop experience to a better web experience. There is many talks today about the AJAX Office and everything that will make the common tasks that we make usually with desktop application more easy to use with simply a browser. The Operating System in this case will be definitely the web browser.
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