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Del.icio.us offers up a service which I think isn't taken advantage as much as it could be. There are are many ways to use an online favorites folder, including the ways discussed in the Sno-Isle Web 2.0 tutorials which I think are very useful. Simply having access to the same data no matter where you are is a pretty big thing even though it seems like a small thing.

Familiarity is something that gets a product into the "mainstream", and if a person is able to feel at home on any computer they use, the entire experience of using the internet will be enhanced for that person. To some extent I think that software engineers have overlooked a lot of the features that get taken up by web 2.0 technologies. True, some of them are becoming assimilated by the giants of software development (namely Apple and Microsoft), but it's really too late.

It's my belief that centralized, server-based computing is the logical choice for making the greatest use of the complex capabilities of the internet. It was simply overlooked by giant companies in an effort to make the quick dollar from selling a product that can be seen as a possession rather than a life tool.

The open source community has a slightly better approach to this idea, but the flaky implementation leads a lot to be desired in terms of functionality and ease of use.

Ideally, everything would be "online" and logging onto the internet would be as accessible as logging onto a pc locally. Documents, pictures, music has all gone the way of Web 2.0, however taking into account privacy concerns and the limitations of our current connections in terms of bandwidth, I think we'll only see more third party support for moving the computing experience away from a single computer and to any piece of equipment capable of simple access.