The Jason Salas Experience

I gotta give it up to Gmail...they rule. I found out about the "View As HTML" addition for PDF or MS Office attachments, and didn't get to try it out until now. I'm was using a Win XP Pro PC, trying to view PDF'ed notes of a Web 2.0 speech by Joshua Porter and PowerPoint slides on emerging media by BubbleGeneration. Adobe Reader isn't installed and I don't have administrative rights, so I can't install it.

I e-mailed the documents to myself to give it a spin, and right off the bat, it formatted both types of content. That's sick.

This is advanced functionality that I'm quite sure won't be the norm for Web 2.0 operations for some time, but this is a great option to having the actual apps installed on a machine. The cheap Network Computer is looking better and better all the time.