Just sitting here today banging away at all of these desktop ‘productivity’ applications on my laptop and thinking about how great it would be to have tools that are fundamentally different than what we have been using for lo these 20 years. I am rooting for new market solutions that can release me from these separate applications for ‘writing’, ‘calculating’, ‘emailing’, ‘collaborating’ and ‘presenting’. As Google, Zoho and others introduce new web-based office applications in the cloud they will solve the issue of local thick client installs of office software.  But, here’s hoping they, or some of our open source friends include fundamental changes in the nature of how these tools behave and inter operate, or at least have a plan to get there soon!

A small example - why should I have to switch out of my email presentation window to look for a map to an address presented within the message? We did a review (more…)