Just discovered a nice little tool on the net : Zamzar.
Via the website, you can automatically convert files from one type into
another. Eg. from MS Word into PDF, from GIF into JPG, … You can even
convert any YouTube
movie into a downloadable video format! How about that! Just follow the
4 simple step, wait a little and you receive an email with a link to
the converted file.
This kind of applications you can use over the Internet, without
having to download or install anything, are in web 2.0 terms described
as ‘Software as a Service’, short : SaaS. Typically, users don’t pay for owning the software (because they don’t 
), but for using it. But no worries : in the case of Zamzar, it’s totally free!
And if the whole SaaS story sounds vaguely familiar: yes, it is
indeed exactly the same as the old Application Service Provider (or: ASP) model. The old sheep just got a new fur…
