With more and more applications and companies positioning themselves online, is it slowly the death of applications offline? Or has it already died? What prompts me to write this post? I was reading about this company called Ajax13 and they are doing some pretty cool stuff – taking stuff that has existed offline into the online world with some add-on’s and some spices of 2.0.

Zoho, Live Documents, Google Docs & Spreadsheets are some examples of having cloned versions of MS office online. Spotify, Songza, LastFM,Songbird – some examples of having music playlists with hefty database of music that you can ever imagine online. So what happens to iTunes, Windows Media Player or rather downloading / purchasing music if there are portals that allow you to customize your music needs through their own collection and make sure you have the same experience as listening to music offline? Or will both exist equally?

The web is witnessing a major shift. While some years back the experiences of having a PC without the internet was acceptable, but with major disruptions in the internet infrastructure, those days ceased to exist. Probably in 10 years from now. there will hardly ever be applications that stands alone in the desktop without synchronizing to the internet or probably more and more webtops kind of devices will start ruling our everyday lives.