by Brian Solis
I recently spoke to a highly visible and influential tech blogger who observed that today’s online applications are reminiscent of the desktop experience surrounding Windows 95. With hosted apps and SaaS gaining traction within business, this sentiment is now shared by many.
Simply stated, we sacrifice functionality, performance, and aesthetics in many cases to have tether-free access to our apps from any computer at any time – as long as there’s a Web connection.
This is temporary. Innovation is constant and online applications will scale to meet our expectations and demands.
With that said, Google Docs has rolled out a Google Docs Gadget for Google Desktop.
The Docs Gadget allows you to search and open your Google documents right from the desktop. The team has also added drag-and-drop uploading for documents – individually or in bulk.
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