alessandro's comments

In the medium-run the dollar value will go down (in 6/8 months). There's non way the USA could repay the debt. Brasil,Russia,India and China (the BRIC) want a group of currencies non only the dollar, to be the world currency. They don't want, for the future, to encrease their dependance on the dollar. In the future they will become (and the China is becoming now) more advanced economies, not only selling goods to the west. And the american debt holders are afraid of the american debt becoming larger day by day. So you should expect bat times for the american bond and the dollar (but good for your export and debt).

I think Google will continue to "win" and we will use their applications/reader/ecc until they will have the dominant search engine. If you look at what they offer (with the exception, maybe, of excel-like webapp), they are not killer application. We are using them because our online-life is Google-centric. So we should remeber that everything else they do is buld on their search engine dominance (think to the omnibox)... For the webos is the same. It's fine, for a netbook IF Google will remain Google.

If you look at what people do with a Mac, they do far more than just using web application. Far Far more.