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08 Jul 2006
Living in the web
Martin Lindner gives his personal feelings why he prefers services over applications. He wants to be out there, he does not want to be locked into his desktop.
I understand those feelings, I must say that I have the same ones. I want to be in contact as well. However I prefer applications over services, desktops over webtops. One of the main reasons for me is the better functionality of applications. I find services often annoying as they do not allow me to do certain things.
I do not think that I am locked in, getting all the news, remixing it and putting it out there again. I am using the browser less than before. I had to visit Martin's web-site in order to see his whole post. And often there are similar reasons to visit a web-site. The MicroContent is locked into a web-page. By reading and writing on the MicroContent level I have the feeling that I can be more efficient. I do not have to see all the fluff on a web-page, I do not want to see all that irrelevant context.
Anyway this is an interesting difference, which warrants some more analysis.