Online productivity tools and Web 2.0 winners

Google docs seems a useful tool for shared applications where there is no great learning curve for the folks involved. In previous lifetimes this would have been really useful - where a collaborative task involved multiple copies of documents being shipped around by email and no one being quite sure they had the latest version. I don't have an application for the docs now - other than I created a home page for myself that had all of my favorites on it so I don't need to keep opening IE and trying to find an address in my list of favorites. Not what Google docs was designed for, but it worked. Then I read the Web 2.0 winners and found another way to do this.

Later...I read a discussion of the problem of people also wanting to use Google docs offline. What would solve this would be both stored content and web-based application/functionality mirrored locally. We really do seem to want it all, web based but also locally based so I can access my document off line if I want to.

The Web 2.0 winners listed an item I will definitely pursue. I send and receive large image files. This either means my email is clogged up or the person I am sending the jpg or tiff to cannot receive it. Omnidrive may make that a possibility. It seemed a little buggy - images not coming up etc, but we did a test run and it seemed usable. Now whether I can get the folks with whom I share files to use it...


Later...This was not the panacea I thought it might be. I tried to upload an image using dialup, and after 10 minutes gave up. The file I was trying to upload was 53 k. So file transfer remains an issue to be dealt with, somehow.