Man, everybody loves this Web 2.0 stuff, this whole idea of centering around the web as a platform, making personal information and preferences ubiquitous. Flickr (and now upcoming.org) gets bought by Yahoo!, everyone’s flipping out over social software like del.icio.us (and now ning.com, which will be known years in the future as when social software jumped the shark), and everyone and their brother is coming up with some AJAX driven office or instant messenging software. Facebook, Friendster, Meebo, and JotSpot Live, oh my. Sure, cool is cool, but at what point do “social software” and “web-based” become buzzwords?

Still, I want in on the action, so I decided to make some web based software of my own.

Browzr: The Web Based Browser

In the tradition of 37 Signals, I’ve made the perfect application. It’s simple, completely functional, and requires no installation at all. It’s not big on features, but one of the principles of Web 2.0 is “cost-effective scalability,” and this is definitely cost-effective. It’s got all the features of the browser you’re using right now, with none of the fuss. It’s portable to almost any known platform. And best of all it’s, completely web based.

All you have to do is type in the webpage you want to go to below, and hit the “Browz!” button (our patent department is working on making sure no one else can have one of those). If you want to visit Google, type in “google.com” and you’re there. Slashdot? “slashdot.org” and boom. Talk about accessibility. Talk about lack of a learning curve. Go ahead. Try it. Enjoy it.

Welcome to Web 2.0.

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Personal note to Scoble: I’m ready to accept your offer anytime.

Personal note to Larry and Sergey: Blogger’s got nothing on me. I’m cheap, let’s talk.