by Aner Ravon
this is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now so here goes. I am putting the enterprise 2.0 question to the real life test. My own test, on my own premises. Reviews or occasional testing is not nearly enough to get what it really means to take your professional life online. It’s living the life that is necessary to tell whether web apps are really a better alternative then the local incumbents.
For the next 3 months, I will be using web applications only to do the following:
1. Email
2. Word processing
3. Spreadsheets
4. Calendar
5. Presentations
6. Blogging
7. Business and Social Networking
Anything derivative is included in the experiment as well (for example thesaurus or graphs). Unfortunately web based IM and VOIP are not good enough yet to be seriously considered. I will make an attempt to migrate there as well, but I can’t promise.
As an internet savvy prosumer, if I can’t survive on online applications alone, then web 2.0 is not ready for the enterprise. If I can, and more importantly if I never look back, then it’s time to consider some serious follow ons.
The rules of the experiment are pretty simple:
1. Timeframe - 3 months.
2. Trial and error - Up to 3 different web applications per use case before eventually sticking with one.
3. Using web applications only, but local storage is permitted.
3. Posting a tracking update every week in Degardener.
Feel free to point at interesting applications beyond the straight forward we all know. Good luck to me. Experiment is on…..now!
Aner Ravon
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1. Email
Gmail
2. Word processing
Writely
3. Spreadsheets
http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html
4. Calendar
Google Calender
5. Presentations
6. Blogging
You Doin it , Wordpress or flock .
7. Business and Social Networking
Linkedin , I4giveu.com 
all the best - would really like to know how it went. I wonder what you are going to do for presentations Others - yes sure! may be use word docs as Presentations 
Next year - may be all of the cell phone.
btw - great blog you have here.
I recently heard from someone about an Israeli web based spreadsheet, he said he tried a few and found this one much more satisfying than the competition. He’s probably a bit biased but in an attempt to encourage the Israeli 2.0 scene try irows.com
06.13.06 @ 6:03 amI tried iRows, as well as WikiCalc and Google Spreadseets. I will write all about what i came up with, what i ended up using and what it turned into in my next experiment update.
06.13.06 @ 6:05 amGreat idea, and a courageous one indeed
I suggest you group together the weeklies and create a link to them all.
As for the experiment’s results, you concentrate on the question whether web 2.0 is ready (and/or better than client apps), however, I believe you won’t be able to avoid the other question which is about the best web solution for each need. Namely, your point 2 above may become crucial to the success/interpretation of the results. Thus, for clarity i would suggest to distinguish several issues/topics, something like:
1) Are the 2.0 Apps good enough and ready (UI wise, easy to use, flexible, etc…)
2) Is the 2.0 Network ready (connectivity wise, BW, Security, privacy, storage, etc)
3) What can be done using the Web that Cannot be done using client apps?
Good luck
and… go publish it!!! so many people/groups/media may be interested in it…
[…] Coincidence strikes in mysterious ways. Less then 10 days after kicking off our reality web life experiment I had a serious fumble to recover. Yesterday evening (6:15PM to be precise) my laptop died. No warning signs, no heads up, no reaction time. It just went from totally vivrant to totally dead in less then a split second. “No reaction at all” dead, in case you wondered. Murphy is a master of bad timing as we know and this was no exception. I was stressed with time, had 2 important documents to review-edit-send off, a presentation to finish and practice, some urgent emails to read and write and a post to finish. This is what I call a real life web based curve ball. I took over my wife’s computer and got friendly with it for the first time. […]
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