Tag: web 2.0
Billed as a collaborative slideware application Adobe Labs has launched Presentations. Yet after building a series of prezos and testing the waters I must admit: I was expecting a lot more with Adobe’s online reputation.
At first glance you may ask is this Adobe’s PowerPoint Killer? Actually the real competition is with SlideRocket, a strong online presentation tool that has been online for a couple of years and gathering high praise. Both Keynote and SlideRocket take a strong visual approach to authoring slide presentations.
Look at Photoshop.com to see how powerful visual tools can be migrated from the desktop to the internet. In the end desktop competitors PowerPoint and Keynote along with online competitor SlideRocket are much more robust presentation tools.
There was something from Sarah Lacy’s book Once You’re Lucky Twice You’re Good which really hit home. Today kids look to FaceBook as their exclusive communication tool. They don’t do email like our generation overdoes email.
That’s a key indicator of how different today’s Web2.0 kids are changing the rules. Can the establishment keep up with them? Well see in the very short term future.
This was a great read and I must thank Kate Olson who was able to get a copy for me to read and post my review.
Lacy’s book, IMHO starts with the best story first. Max Levchin. His inspiring story of fleeing Ukraine the night of the Chernobyl disaster was amazing. He flees from a hospital in the middle of the night to later leave college to start PayPal.
Yes, that’s right a kid who flew the USSR makes his way to Silicon Valley and San Francisco to put his amazing mathematical skills to use and builds an amazing tool that would later be purchased by eBay.
Sarah also documents the story of Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com and proves again that Marc Andreessen really is a jerk. But from the outside many of us would not know the ins and outs of the Web2.0 world and all their financial venture “vulture capital” stories. Pretty rough from the outside…but Sarah makes this work. Interested to know more about the inner circle of the Web2.0 world? Read Once You’re Lucky, Twice your Good!
The huge success of web apps have made me think about jumping into the cloud with Microsoft’s Office suite.
Back in the day, Office was really the only game in town. Today Google’s App services had taken the lead in the Web2.0 surge.
Apps provide great functionality and workgroup solutions for free. Many users will never push Excel to its limits. Google Apps which includes a powerful spreadsheet app is definitely good enough for many of us on a day to day basis.
Robert Scoble announced:
I’ve been watching my usage. In two months I’ve only used Outlook out of the entire Office Suite. Everything else? Moved onto online services.”
– 09:06 AM April 30, 2008 from web
Internet2 is looking to re-invent its mission. The organization is now 10 years old, celebrating a decade of advancement in Chicago in December of 2006. Internet2 will engage the community…and will benefit from the wisdom of crowds. It appears some of the reason to re-invent comes from the failed merge with the National Lambda Rail and also from the emerging impact of Web2.0 solutions for individuals and in the enterprise.
In higher education the opportunity to collaborative remains a big challenge due to the fact that working collaboratively now extends across the globe. In the end the fast changing globalized world will benefit from educational institutions empowered by advanced networks. By the way … Internet2’s CEO Doug Van Houweling will be speaking in Madison at WiscNet‘s Future Technologies Conference.
Tags: Internet2, WiscNet, Doug Van Houweling, community, globalization, trends