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Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

Web apps are desperately trying to leverage the full power of the desktop. We had JS, Flash, Silverlight, all technologies that run locally on the client while still keeping your data on the server.
Here’s one more from Google called Google Native Client (NaCl). This is a browser plugin that allows websites to run full blown [...]

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Google Reader gets a facelift

Ok, it is a slow news day. The online Google RSS reader has a new UI. Interesting news, but nothing to write a whole blog post about.
But I just saw an instance on how true my previous post on loss of control in web apps is.
When I read this story on download squad, the writer [...]

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