http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/web-20-expo-key/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/04/web-20-expo-key/#comment-18 T.J. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:30:10 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/?p=15#comment-18 <p>Both interesting topics. I think the "walled garden" topic is especially important to future web growth. Take for example, software development. For years companies just pushed out their products using a Microsoft codebase, as that was really the only market available. But now companies are scrambling to go cross-platform with their software, as more and more users migrate to Mac and Linux. It also implicitly pushes the ideas behind open-source software, where the "community" provides solutions to your problems. I think in 2-3 years almost all mobile devices will have to have full access to the web, just so providers can stay competitive (Android will help as well). Also, they should stop calling things "Web 2.0", that's the worst hype term in the market today (at least Cloud Computing and SaaS make sense with the model). Here's to hoping next year it will be named the "Evolution of the Web" conference.</p> Both interesting topics. I think the “walled garden” topic is especially important to future web growth. Take for example, software development. For years companies just pushed out their products using a Microsoft codebase, as that was really the only market available. But now companies are scrambling to go cross-platform with their software, as more and more users migrate to Mac and Linux. It also implicitly pushes the ideas behind open-source software, where the “community” provides solutions to your problems. I think in 2-3 years almost all mobile devices will have to have full access to the web, just so providers can stay competitive (Android will help as well). Also, they should stop calling things “Web 2.0″, that’s the worst hype term in the market today (at least Cloud Computing and SaaS make sense with the model). Here’s to hoping next year it will be named the “Evolution of the Web” conference.

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