Despite the fact that I'm not too happy about the growing trend toward software (webware as I call it) moving to an "online operating system," I think it's going to happen anyway. And while I moan about it, fearing loss of power in my desktop applications, rising cost for access to computing applications, and the introduction of a greater dependance on bandwidth (include the net neutrality debates here) for functionality, I must admit that the collaborative work environment has some advantages when it all works.

But the potential here goes further than just collaborative work. Apple may be moving toward their own version of the "online operating system" with some of the features introduced in OS 10.5, Leopard: Back to My Mac (watch the video demo at this link), Screen Sharing, and, well, a host of sharing and remote management features.

And the .Mac service associated with iPhoto and Aperture allow Web Gallery creators to permit their viewers access to uploading their own photos to the gallery creator's gallery. Once people begin to think differently about web space, these features will no doubt be wildly popular. Imagine: all of your friends can upload the pictures they took of your wedding event to your web gallery of your pictures of the wedding, creating a shared celebration from everyone's lens perspective.

But this post isn't about Apple's 10.5 features. It's not really a discussion of webware and the internet as an operating system. The purpose of this post is to point readers to three posts over at Mashable.com on online office-style productivity software: online word processing, online spreadsheet applications, and now online presentation applications. In each post the author features a number of online software solutions. Check them out. If you want to share your awareness of others not mentioned in those posts, click the comments link below.