The point is this kind of 'on-the-fly' software or ui dispenses with the need of countless small web apps and parts of larger software.
"Display my calendar for the next 3 weeks, in a vertical column per day, divided into hours, with an expanded fisheye view of morning work hours and highlight any out-of-office meetings. Make meetings clickable, and when clicked, open a page including more details of the meeting and it's participants, and links to their facebook pages. Save the program as part of my dashboard"
"Display my calendar for the next 3 weeks, in a vertical column per day, divided into hours, with an expanded fisheye view of morning work hours and highlight any out-of-office meetings. Make meetings clickable, and when clicked, open a page including more details of the meeting and it's participants, and links to their facebook pages. Save the program as part of my dashboard"
Etc.