Future of webapplications -
The candidates I currently see:
1. Apollo (Flex/Flash), Windows Presentation Foundation (in and outside of the browser)
2. Browser applications – check out this article on Firefox and the next release. Behaving more like a run-time capable of hosting connected applications. Using technologies like XUL & Ajax.
» The role of the desktop in Rich Internet Applications | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com
Good article on RIA’s and desktop convergence. Interesting view on Ajax as a desktop application…
The internet will become more serious and more commercial. Services that have been free will go commercial.
IE7 adoption rates will go up as Vista is shipped with new PC’s
Web 2.0 hype will slow down, people will wake up and know that because you can doesn’t mean you should.
RSS will increase to become mainstream. Used by humans and by webapplication for data exchange (Google Base).
Following this trend the web will use more and more structured data based on open standards.
Web Office, online office will be adopted by small and perhaps not so small business. Focus will be on productivity and TCO.
Use of RIA (Rich Internet Applications) will increase. Watch Adobe’s Apollo and Microsoft’s WPF
Google will release GoogleOS, based on an optimzed version of linux. Microsoft will fight Google with the Live services (of course tightly integrated with Vista). Google will buy Digg/Secondlife/Pandora/netvibes)
Internet-based TV will be huge. Meaning youtubeVnext and its competitors. Vista will find it’s way into the livingroom as mediacenter. Apple will wow the world with it’s own mediacenter! Sony will announce a mediacenter/playstation/ entertainment center. As will a Nokia consortium.
A bold one, Virtual money. A new currency will start to emerge… See Secondlife’s Lindex, Microsoft Points, Google…
Online real estate. Wow, certainly in the Netherlands, a war is raging. Consumers are turning away from traditional realtors and moving online. Competition is fierce and marketing budgets bulging. And ofcource there is much to be won.
E-learning will be used massively by third (& second) world countries.
MSOffice is going to start to die. Consumers will stop using Office at home, preferring online editors like Google Documents. Microsoft will come with online office, but this will be a paid service, and therefore not really take off.
Companies that will have success in 2007 Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn. Myspace’s popularity will shrink.
Pageviews is het aantal keer dat een pagina opgevraagd wordt. Door ontwikkelingen als Rich Internet, Flash applicatie en Ajax is de definitie van een ‘page’. minder duidelijk. Grote partijen als Yahoo trekken daarom de waarde van een pageview in twijfel.
Er wordt nu eerder gesproken over ‘bereik’.
Weather Bonk – Live Weather, Forecasts, WebCams, and more on a Google Map (Groningen, NETHERLANDS )
Good usage of Google Maps.
Slashdot Google Web Toolkit Now 100% Open Source
Another free Ajax library. But isn’t this the one that acutally started al the madness?
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