Information Research Weblog

Molly Wood has an interesting little article, Good-bye, computer; hello, world! on the C|Net site. In it she proposes that Google may be developing a strategy of providing Web-based services:

I think Google's going to build a Web-based thin client-type hosted environment-slash-operating system replacement.

...Google has been working with a combination of Web application development technologies that have recently been dubbed Ajax. Ajax, which is short for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, combines JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and XMLHTTP to, in essence, let you build Web-based applications that run as quickly and seamlessly as local software.

[You'll find more about Ajax on the Adaptive Path site.]