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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.
Peter’s best man, Jake (the bloke who first introduced me to David Deutsch) , has started up http://jokii.com/. It’s a great, simple idea. He talks about it a little bit here. He hopes it will become the internet’s biggest and best organised collection of jokes.
It’s only been up and running a short time and already it blows other joke sites on the web out of the water.
Nice one Jake.
This is genuinely jaw-dropping. Thanks to Joe for sending it to me:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Download the video file, you won’t regret it.
