The Office 2.0 Podcast Jam is alive and kicking
I have my own views on Office2.0. I can't see it taking off much until persistent storage is supported locally by all browsers and offline access and document synchronisation is done well. We'll see more Single Page Application's written entirely in Javascript utilising features like Firefox 2's persistent storage as it evolves to perform this task. Possibly in the form of bookmarklets that will allow applications to be run in browser while offline that store to persistent storage - synchronising online during reconnect. Mass usage will come down to when IE supports persistent storage other than this.
Synchronisation to people's favorite storage provider will become increasingly important too. As will APIs in the area that afford interoperability allowing Web Application developers to support one standard to allow many places of storage for users. Even multiple places(e.g. backup) for each piece of data. I can't help but think about Personal Identity Providers here.
I'm actually running RC2 of Firefox 2 at the moment and I have to say it's an improvement over beta 2. Seems quite slick and I finally learnt how to remove those silly close tab buttons. I still can't re-size my search box but in this version it's smaller and easier to manage for my preferred tool bar layout. I'm loving the spell check as I type though! Another Office2.0 feature goes mainstream. I can see this improving language skills exponentially. Unfortunately I chose to install the US version! Not British or Australian.
While I'm on Firefox. I'm still getting used to the scroll tabbing. I don't think I like that. I can't see all my tabs at a glance. Will figure out how to turn that one off as I tend to navigate by favicon when I have a lot of tabs open. Fading non-active tabs sucks as well… I wonder how long it is before I hack the theme. 
Looking ahead, I see things really getting interesting when my browser begins to become my document manager. Tabbed browsing will become increasingly more important. One feature I'd like for tabs is the ability to open an existing tab in a new browser window instance. At the moment I have to open a new window and then drag the tab to it, refreshing the tab in the process. That sucks when I've downloaded a movie or screencast in it. Basically I want threaded tabs. A separate memory space so as to prevent one in-browser application crashing the lot as happens a lot now… Tab locking too. Preventing accidental closure. One reason why I HATE close buttons on all tabs!
