The more I read on the net and in the blogosphere lately the more I hear we are imminently going to be faced with major service driven organisations, such as Google, Microsoft, etc offering us the ability to use their online products in an offline world. This could be great.

Google have for a while had their Gears offering, which I haven’t used - being Mac bound without Firefox installed (that’s a whole different story) - for many of their offerings; extending Gears so it could work with services such as GMail or Apps would be a great play to make. For me - regularly on the move, but wanting to using my mobile time, when I have a laptop in front of me, to catch up with knowledge would be great. If I could seemlessly integrate such an offering so I can cache GR, Mail and Apps on my MBP I could gain so much more productive time, whilst travelling. So, as far as I am concerned this offering can’t come round quick enough.

I do resent the fact that at the moment to take advantage of new technology I am being bullied into adopting Firefox as my browser of choice, but am coming to realise that I have little opportunity - or voice - to do anything about it. Apart from the aforementioned applications though I’m not too sure what else I would like to see made available in an offline world that isn’t already there. Any ideas? Please let me know in the comments.