Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Next Big Thing : User Contributed Metadata

Info graphs about people (facebook/social graphs) , twine (topics/memes) etc. would be the basis for the next generation of web. Several Websites are emerging as repositories of these information graphs. When these repositories allow open access, as proposed by Google's OpenSocial initiative, new web apps/sites can emerge to exploit this information , mainly customizing the user experience according to the info graphs that the user provides.

Web 3.0 (third decade of web, according to Nova Spivak) Revolution party has al;ready started. Some of the leading web 3.0 companies would include facebook, twine, metaweb etc.


Another Perspective of this

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Prism - XUL next version

Firefox has made the XUL Runner Platform much easier to use for the mainstream user with Prism. Prism allows the users to create websites as web-apps with desktop short-cuts. If Prism provides system level services access also, it would be a great platform, competing head to head with Adobe AIR and Silverlight.