Mark Pesce’s now famous Keynote speech for Web Directions is a must read for everyone.

“The net regards hierarchy as a failure, and routes around it.”

“In a future which looks increasingly like the present, there is no center anywhere, no locus of authority, no controlling power ordering our daily lives. There are no governments, no institutions, no businesses that look anything like the limited liability enterprises born in the Netherlands five hundred years ago. Instead, there are groupings, networks within the network, that come together around a project or ideology, a shared sense of salience –”

It seems that the operating system wars must really be over. This article by Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch reveals what the future may hold.

“The platform wars are over. Long live the Web. That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google’s vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago.”

Victor Keegan’s article for the Guardian, written after his visit to the Future Of Web Applications (FOWA) conference in London recently, reflects on the growing trend of the office less enterprise.

This article from Wired magazine offers information on how to integrate Gmail with your other email accounts, how labels and filters work and how to access Gmail from your desktop.

A couple of years ago we were all using desktop applications to get our work done. Now all you need is a network connection and a browser to do much much more!
This slide show explains how companies are using Web 2.0 technologies to create a truly global, social and efficient workplace.