Factum Vicesimus Quartus » future http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog Exploring web x.0, innovation and RIA techniques Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=6413 en hourly 1 The future of the internet and OS’s http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2007/04/the-future-of-the-internet-and-os%e2%80%99s/ http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2007/04/the-future-of-the-internet-and-os%e2%80%99s/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:06:19 +0000 Wietse Veenstra http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/?p=60 Last night Leo Babauta posted a very interesting article on Lifehack.org about his Hard Drive & Software are obsolete. I share this vision in how we will use our computer in the (near?) future. At the moment it’s not yet possible to work completely online but I think this might certainly be a good option for the future. New initiatives and innovative web applications pop up like never before and the quality is getting better every day. The internet connections are becoming increasingly faster and the free online space to save your files is growing like crazy. In the example, Leo points out the website of MediaMax, where you can get 25 GB of free online space!

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Another great application I personally use every day is NetVibes. I read my feeds daily from it, store my favorite/important links, it stores my calendar with important things and I have a to-do list. And new features are built in quite often. Users can also provide their own feature requests and the developers really look into this list. Some of the other applications that will possibly play a big role in the onlinization (did I just invent a new word?) are Desktop Two and YouOS, two applications which simulate a desktop-like environment online (the website of YouOS provides a demo). When you want to edit photos online you should give Fauxto a try. A really impressive RIA built in Flex. There is even an online Flex Compiler, which is a fairly simple example but it shows that more and more initiatives to move existing software to the web are being built every day. Of course this is quite the opposite of what Adobe is trying to achieve with Apollo. I’m not really sure which way it will go but I’m certainly going to follow up on the latest developments on both sides.

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]]> http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2007/04/the-future-of-the-internet-and-os%e2%80%99s/feed/ 0 Web and media predictions for 2007 http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2006/12/web-and-media-predictions-for-2007/ http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2006/12/web-and-media-predictions-for-2007/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:32:28 +0000 Wietse Veenstra http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/?p=44 With 2007 storming towards us the predictions of trends for next year on web and media pop up everywhere. Therefore I tried to list the most interesting articles with predictions for you:

Read/Write Web – 2007 Web Predictions
Ryan Stewarts 10 Prediction for Rich Internet Applications for 2007
Online Spin – Predictions for 2007
Flashpoint – Web 2.0 Summit – Where do we go from here?
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing – 2007 Predictions for the web and software
InfoWorld – Open source is where the action is in 2007
Read/Write Web – Why Browser War 2.0 Will Heat Up in 2007

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