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Just been reading this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/19/could-facebook-become-the-next-microsoft/
It suggests that Facebook could effectively replace not just your homepage, but actually replace your desktop. In other words instead of using, say, Microsoft Word or Excel, you’d use the Facebook word processor application or spreadsheet application ( in the same way as you currently, use, say, the email or photo application.) I’ve been using a web-based word-processor for a while (google-docs as it happens, but I actually think Zoho is just as good) and I’m not sure I’d ever go back to using Word. (Word now really annoys me in work, because it’s so much more difficult to work collaboratively on a document). Actually, in this piece there is talk of Facebook buying a company like Zoho.
I can’t really see how this can be a bad thing. The ability to access your desktop and a wealth of applications from any PC (or mobile device) in the world is surely a massive step forward, and one that has been predicted for some time as being the next really important development on the web.
Since moving my blog over to WordPress it has become a lot easier to post away from my PC. There is a really simple interface which works on my phone and is as simple as sending an email. I can’t understand why Blogger, with all the might of google behind them can’t come up with a better offering that they do. I’ve just read another very interesting thing that WordPress are doing with Facebook. It looks as though you can now embed your blog onto your fbook profile, have it feed into your mini feed and even post from within f book. If it works this should be the first post on my profile. How very dull!
