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Office 2.0
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–by Andrew McCaskey
It seems to be the fashion to relabel with the 2.0 extension, and it’s applied again – to Office 2.0. Not MS Office or Open Office, but rather, as Ismael Ghalimi explains in his blog IT Redux “This is the essence of Office 2.0: one should be able to perform most office productivity tasks without having to use any client application other than a web browser.”
Some links from the AJAX crowd have been released in the past few weeks, most notably Ajaxwrite.com, but the floodgates are about to open. Ismael cites a fast growing stream of new apps, soon to be a flood in certain application spaces.
He also cites some fundamentals – what he calls Rules for Office 2.0
Productivity apps, online, with nothing but a browser.
No files on the PC at all. The user files are on the server at the service. He calls for services he used to work with the most popular web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari – althought he puts Opera as a nice-to-have . He also specifies no plugins – and apps that have RSS syndication , and collaboration features move to the top of his list. And, as a requirement, specifies data import and export.
It bears close observation. I’m enough of a portable app/U3 enthusiast and backup fan to want to have the local copies of my documents on my thumb drive in addition to those on some service provider, but for speed and convenience, opening a single browser and then tabbing between a word processor, spreadsheet, feed reader
So, in no particular order, here are his recommendations for Office 2.0 online apps.
This development is one more more opportunity for creative applications, especially in the utility category in the Techpodcast/U3 Developer contest. If applications – at least lightweight ones shift to AJAX, caution types like myself would love an automatic application on the USB drive that would, in the background, pull down archive copies of my files – for my piece of mind, or when I wanted to use another heavyweight app from the U3 environment to add tables, or do animations that the lightweight on-line apps can’t handle.
To enter, you download the free U3 Deployment kit from U3, register by email at contest@techpodcast.com , port your application to the to the U3 thumb drive with the U3 SDK, and submit your app to U3 before May 15th.
Three cash prizes will be awarded, one per category. The prizes are $500, $250, and $100 plus bragging rights. And, the top prize can occur in any category.
The complete rules and entry details are listed on SDR.com.
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