We talked about Office 2.0, the new expectation that I will never have to install software on my computer ever again. All software will be available on the web and offered as a service.

Office 2.0 is a subset of online services that provide productivity services to people on the go needing office type software. We need to consider the wider sphere of all those applications available as, in the wider context, Web 2.0. That is, there are a whole raft of services online to which I may turn for ordinary software/services to basically do whatever I want.




Web 2.0 is the expectation that I can obtain any application I need from the web - the web is an application platform that aids me in participating in writing/reading the web (as shown on the diagram above and obtained from the excellent explanation in "A Web 2.0 by any other name").

So just how many services/software applications are there that may be considered as being web 2.0 applications? Try this list of the top 1,000 web 2.0 list. This is the best list I have seen yet, over 1,000 of the top web 2.0 applications.

I guarantee you that should you start looking at the list you will spend a couple of hours just sorting through potentially interesting applications/services. There are many applications that are more than useful to people on the go who office from a laptop rather than an office.