{"id":89,"date":"2006-07-15T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T00:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-07-24T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T01:12:29","slug":"spellcheck-20-bringing-the-benefits-of-web-20-back-to-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/89\/spellcheck-20-bringing-the-benefits-of-web-20-back-to-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"SpellCheck 2.0: Bringing the benefits of Web 2.0 back to the desktop&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing today, and I realized that spell checking, for all its added efficiencies, isn&#8217;t terribly smarter than it was on the dedicated text-processing systems of the 1980s. It made the jump to desktop machines, of course, a trusty sidekick of word-processing, the first true &#8220;killer app&#8221; of micro-computing. But both were quickly eclipsed by spreadsheet software, and text management tools have been a red-headed step-child on desktop systems ever since. Everyone needs them, and everyone hates them when they don&#8217;t work properly, but no one lays awake at night wondering what new computing paradigms might be expressed in future versions of their favorite word processor.<\/p>\n<p>And spell checking has had it even worse. It&#8217;s the sidekick to the step-child, after all. If it had a more tangible form, it might be stuffed into a junk drawer, handy to have around but usually just in the way. Spell checking has missed virtually all of the internet revolution, of course. Many web development tools incorporate spell checking, as do some on-line web sites. But there was no formal presence for spell checking in the Web 1.0 paradigm. No spelling look-up servers. No advertiser-supported spelling portals. No spelling IPOs. In fact, not one single wide-eyed investor pissed away his retirement savings on a Web 1.0 spelling start-up.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, it seems almost certain that spell checking will be passed by in the forth-coming Web 2.0 revolution. This would be unfortunate, since spell checking is in fact the perfect Web 2.0 application&#8211;er, platform. Note these criteria from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/oreilly\/tim\/news\/2005\/09\/30\/what-is-web-20.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tim O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s seminal paper on the characteristics of a Web 2.0 platform<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Long Tail<\/li>\n<li>Data is the Next Intel Inside<\/li>\n<li>Users Add Value<\/li>\n<li>Network Effects by Default<\/li>\n<li>Some Rights Reserved<\/li>\n<li>The Perpetual Beta<\/li>\n<li>Cooperate, Don&#8217;t Control<\/li>\n<li>Software Above the Level of a Single Device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we envision a product&#8211;er, application&#8211;er, platform called SpellCheck 2.0, we can incorporate all that stuff and then some.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/Web2.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\"\/>It may occur to you to ask, &#8220;Why?&#8221; That&#8217;s really a pre-Web 1.0 question. Web 2.0 is not about getting things done, it&#8217;s about getting people together. It&#8217;s not about what we as a club-composed-of-people-who-have-never-met have accomplished, it&#8217;s about how we feel about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/89\/spellcheck-20-bringing-the-benefits-of-web-20-back-to-the-desktop\/#more-89\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing today, and I realized that spell checking, for all its added efficiencies, isn&#8217;t terribly smarter than it was on the dedicated text-processing systems of the 1980s. It made the jump to desktop machines, of course, a trusty sidekick of word-processing, the first true &#8220;killer app&#8221; of micro-computing. 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