<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/01c26dbc-7bba-4820-ba69-bbe7c374a6b1/38E9C2C8-16A5-40DF-87BA-290A278E6854/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elephants_and_evolution.php" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elephants_and_evolution.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readwriteweb.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elephants_and_evolution.php"><P><IMG width="183" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="240" border="0" align="left" alt="elephants" src="http://static.flickr.com/102/285573788_af2885f0fe_m.jpg" />The two elephants of personal computing these days are <B>Microsoft</B> and <B>Google</B>. Microsoft rose to dominance by capturing the desktop. Google is rising to dominance by capturing the web. Both strategies revolve around <B>who can capture your data</B>. Elephants require massive amounts of food to survive, so it's no surprise that Microsoft and Google are eyeing each other's data. Microsoft has started a '<A href="http://www.live-documents.com/">Live</A>' initiative to engage Google on the web. Google has tinkered with <A href="http://docs.google.com/">productivity</A> apps that might just work <A href="http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6124601.html">offline</A>, to join Microsoft on the desktop. If either Microsoft or Google is successful at grabbing the other's data, the most useful byproduct of their efforts will be new ways to easily move data <B>between</B> the desktop and web. The result of this battle will further blur the lines between purely desktop and exclusively web applications.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/38E9C2C8-16A5-40DF-87BA-290A278E6854/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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