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well, as a computer scientist as well as a regular user, i've noted a few things.

first, speed is a problem. i was paying someone by the hour, i'd rather them use local apps because it's just so much faster, even for simple text. when you start making websites with images (just forget video!) the amount of wait time is ridiculous compared to dragging stuff from the desktop into say, MS Word or something like Dreamweaver.

and you know what? Google's apps are buggy..even gmail still has bugs in it, pretty obvious ones too. i mean, come on! that is ridiculous. the Docs programs are full of problems, and this is supposed to be the future? are they that retarded or what? apparently so.

and some of the gaping holes are remarkable..try to upload a simple txt or word doc and then edit it. you can't. i tried for half an hour, and ended up with cut/paste and lost some formatting.

Zoho seems better than Google, actually, but i'm still in the getting to know it stage. i think i will use them though, for some things.

clearly the cloud approach has a lot going for it, i'm psyched, actually. the best thing is that you aren't tied so any desktop, and don't have to worry (i hope!) about backup so much. i mean, who ever does that in this day and age?

i use yahoo mail as my chief backup approach for files up to 10MB i think. works like a charm. unfortunatly my XDrive account vanished with some of my bulkier data, sad. what else is there for free? please tell me!

clearly for netbooks and phones and pdas (yes, i'm talking about Android!) these cloud things will have to do. so i sure the heck hope that Google hurries up and gets it together before the first wave of those comes out this year.

otherwise, Zoho is going to be a booming company, i think.

and Yahoo better hurry up and move beyond "notepad" too, which they haven't even bothered to upgrade since it came out 6 or 8 year ago. now THAT is sad. a useful idea, a big company, and they just let it flippin' rot on the vine. Google docs isn't all that advanced, Yahoo should pounce on that now while they can.

anyhow, if anyone has some cool stuff for me (us!) to check out along these lines, please add it. i'll check back.

after all is said and done, Gmail is the best email going, even with its little bugs and slight latency...might be time to test Chrome out, i hear that Java-(ok, Ecma-)Script is faster in that. i'm sure that the gphones will all have that, so i might as well check it out now, eh?

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