#19 Discovering Web 2.0 tools
I'm cheating. I'm doing my blog on facebook, my absolute favourite new website where I have been throwing food, looking at pics, playing scrabble, growing gifts, playing tetris and meeting up with friends and family I haven't seen in ages. My lovely computer geek says that I am living in a virtual world, and wonders why I can't just socialise with these people off line. I reminded him that most of my facebook friends (almost 60 now - I feel very popular) are living in Italy, U.S, Germany and South Africa, and in fact about 30% are his cousins. It is fantastic that site that encompasses email, picture sharing, video hosting, games, calendering etc., etc., in one spot. I love my it.
# 18 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops
Hey. I've had a play with Zoho, and have to admit I'm not really a fan. I've been using similar free web-based applications for a while (remember my lovely computer geek? - need I say more). I can see why these applications may be a threat to microsoft in the future - why pay $x for a piece of software and licensing which can only be used on certain computers, when you can use a similar piece of software for free. But from my experience, these apps can be very cumbersome and clunky. My husband says it's because I have been "microsoftified". Perhaps it is.
It is nice to have your document sitting there waiting for you though. I remember when I was studying at uni - as well as saving my work to disk (all you youngens can replace this with USB), I would also email documents to myself so that I can access them from my web-based email on any computer anywhere. Isn't it fantastic that things can sit out there in the ether, for us to access whenever we need. Fantastic - but a bit wierd and scary if I think about it too much. hmmm ...
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