I came across an excellent site this afternoon that allows you to edit photos online. Pixer is simple and intuitive and has all the tools you would need to upload, crop, resize, and generally edit photos without spending a fortune on offline software.

There is a movement that many people are aware of in moving applications online, from Google Docs to Salesforce. These apps are either open source or subscription-based and provide (at a more basic level for now) many of the same services you will find in traditional offline applications. Moving the entire operating system online is the next step. Some commentators have spoken about something like GooOS, which extends Google’s enormous server-farms, quantity of scale costs and efficiencies, and sheer server power to the operating system. A WebOS like this would again re-volutionise the industry, and determine the winner in the power wars between Google and Microsoft. Of course, a tiny startup without the power or resources of both those players might prove to be the winner. We’ll have to see.

posted by rowanp at 5:00 pm & filed under web, technology |