Friday, August 29, 2008

Requirement 1: Maximize Portability

No gadget is truly a part of the "cloud computing" phenomenon without gaining the obvious portability advantage. This is by far the most important reason that people use the cloud and nothing in my experiment will be successful unless I can successfully access my information from any internet-accessible computer. I'm limiting my experiences to just computers for ease of use, the fact that I sadly don't own an iPhone, and the fact that most of my productivity takes place on a full QWERTY keyboard.
  1. The first condition of portability must be that the gadget is fully compatible with most major web browsers; namely Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
  2. This also means that the gadget must be completely platform independent; so, fully compatible with MS Windows, Linux, and OSX.
  3. Thirdly it must be "rights" independent. That is to say that I should be equally successful working at home on my personally add-on pimped-out version of Firefox as I am while forced to trudge away on the tightly locked-down, security paranoid Internet Explorer installed in my school's computer lab.

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