Listening in for "the buzz" at the Web 2.0 Summit here. A couple things I'm hearing a lot about are:
widgetization - clearly Adobe is going to capitalize this with AIR, but the idea that your web apps should be portable is full-on across the board.
open APIs - this is kind of a no-brainer with the prevalence of Facebook platform (they asked the room how many people were involved in some way with a Facebook app when Zuck was on stage and about 70% of the people in the room raised their hand!). Speakers who are not opening their platforms were being chided onstage by their interviewers (Meg Whitman from eBay for example).
presence - the concept of presence is on a lot of lips. This is what Twitter is all about. People microblogging their every move online. This sounds like a flash in the plan to grown-ups, but AOL and Microsoft are talking about it and so are a lot people here. Going to be in the Wired/Tired/Expired column soon.
Facebook - did I mention Facebook?
Adam,
ReplyDeletehave you seen my post on TinyApps? Curious to hear your feedback.
Also, have you seen GOOG's Social Web Commandments?
What are your thoughts on OpenSocial vs Fb?