Online Apps

And apparently, this doesn’t refer to facebook Apps. Go figure. With all the advertising about an awesome lab, I figured we’d be playing jetman the entire time. I’m kidding of course.

So, online apps is apparently actually referring to a service called Google Documents. Which is frikken sweet, by the way. It’s what every single one of my group projects in highschool needed, because I always ended up doing all the writing. Always. Anyway, basically, google hosts a document for you, and you and nine buddies can edit this thing at the same time. You can actually watch live edits (this is more in the spreadsheet), and write something collaboratively. There are three options that I know of: A word document, a spread sheet and a faux powerpoint presentation. Overall, pretty cool.

I can imagine this will help with so much. I’m just thinking of ai-kon right now. What better way to get a team writing up a schedule? I will bring it up to the next meeting, and hopefully this will eliminate some of the headaches. This sort of thing is really going to streamline the way things are done, and I am excited. But it is only a matter of time before Google becomes sentient. It already runs our lives… I’m just saying get ready for the end.

For the second activity, I explored Meebo. Definitely a cool service, it lets you sing in with your meebo username, and signs you into all you different messenger applications, including facebook (though that one is having bugs). I have significantly fewer online friends now, but when I was in highschool… Well, I had a few online only friends. And of course, they all used different services, and I’d be running three different messenger apps and they would crash my 10gig computer. It was overall a good time.

These days I mostly use msn. I can’t even remember my other usernames, but I can definitely see the attraction of Meebo. To be honest, I’m surprised I didn’t hunt some service like this down back in the day. I’m pretty impressed, and Ic an see myself using it in the future.