Tuesday, April 04, 2006

"Web Desktop" and ALE

It seems like the whole Web 2.0 world goes faster and faster towards creation of a “Web Desktop”. All basic desktop applications are already there, for example:

One thing missing from this “Web Desktop” equation is application integration. On Windows I can easily embed images into spreadsheets, spreadsheets and images into documents and so on. Web 2.0 applications were missing this functionality – but now Zimbra came with a solution for this problem, called ALE (Ajax Linking and Embedding).

I think this is a very important, even fundamental step in the development of Web 2.0 and “Web Desktop”, and I am sure that the new generation of web applications, utilizing ALE, will appear soon, and will begin competing with the traditional office desktop applications. (And I want to play with this cool new technology too!)

Great job, guys at Zimbra! Technorati tags: , ,,

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Zimbra Rocks

Aleksey Linetskiy said...

Well, I 100% agree with the potential dangers you mention - and, probably, there are hundreds other dangers. The current state of the software is definitely not ready for complete switch to "Web desktop" - at least for me. But having "limited" version of desktop handy and being able to work on your stuff at any location is great.

And as for "personal data security"... Well, your - and mine - data currently is stored on many servers. I would even say that my most sensitive data resides on the servers of IRS, medical insurance, DMV, bank etc - but not on my desktop. That doesn't mean that the issues you are talking about shouldn't be addressed, of course. I think that encrypting the private data on the servers might be one of the solutions...

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