Posts Tagged with ‘desktop’

Google Gears and Bringing 2.0 to the Desktop: The Real Question is Why

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Just call me out of touch, but I just don't get the idea behind moving Google Apps offline. You can give me talking points about competing with Microsoft and unified functionality all you want, but in the long run, what does it do other than create a circle that seems nothing more than keeping developers in jobs.
The two hallmarks of Web 2.0 have been making the web social and removing the reliance on the desktop. Google Apps and [...]

Mozilla Prism Focuses On Bringing Web Apps Closer To Desktop

Michael Garrett

Slowly, but surely, people seem to be performing more and more tasks through the use of online web applications rather than with traditional desktop software.
For this reason, Mozilla Labs announced yesterday that it will be launching new experiments that aim to seal the gap between the desktop and web apps" as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur."
The first application to surface from these experiments is Prism, formerly known as WebRunner, which is designed to [...]

Zude.com - Drag it, Drop it, Share it

killerStartups.com

Zude is the mashup of all mashups. It allows you to create websites with incredible ease that hasn?t been seen before. This is thanks to their technology that allows you to drag and drop basically any content from any site right onto the page you?re creating. Content includes pictures, videos, widgets, and just about anything else you?d want to take with you from various sites. Zude also allows you the control to take the content you?ve added to the page and [...]