By Antonio Chagoury on Monday, January 29, 2007

Do you own a CentralDesktop Workspace account?
If you do, then you should seriously reconsider your options!
If you do not, then read on and judge for yourself whether or not you should become their customer.

I was in the midst of evaluating CentralDesktop's document library when I stumbled upon the fact that any document I upload on that library is accessible by anyone. And by "anyone", I mean just that. You do not have to be authenticated to see this file, do ya? No kidding, the file you just saw is on my Company's Document Library on CentralDesktop (here is the actual url: http://www.centraldesktop.com/home/viewfile ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on Sunday, January 28, 2007

I was doing some research this evening on some Office 2.0 applications (more on what these are later) and ran into a slew of AJAX based desktop-like web apps.

Granted, I have known of websites like PageFlakes and konfabulator (now a Yahoo company) for a while now but it seems that more people keep on coming up with more of the same concept.

The one thing that baffles me is how these folks are able to sustain such ventures without necessarily having a monetization strategy. Unless they are VC funded and plan on another YouTube-like buy-out, I am not able to see how these guys will survive.

It seems that social networks are popping up every minute, everybody is doing this Web 2.0 thing. I just wander when will these guys wake up a smell that sour coffee.

Just as the social networking space is getting crowded so is the AJAX desktop space. Even the giants are in on it. ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on Sunday, January 28, 2007

The speed at which technology progresses never seizes to amaze me.

Not more that 3 or 4 months ago I was looking at PageFlakes. I remember thinking to myself "here another one of these Web 2.0 wanna-be's".
Everyone seemed to be getting into the "AJAX" band-wagon and all kind of websites were popping up and down their interpretation Web 2.0.

Today, I once again decided to take a look at PageFlakes only to be very pleasantly surprised at the progress they have made in such a short period of time. 

To be quite honest, I still do not see the "real value" it gives the consumer - take my mom for instance, will she ever find this useful? - Uh, nah. I don' think so.

 The technology behind it is absolutely  cool, don't get me wrong, but I would like to learn and understan ... Read More »