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September 21, 2006
Framing web applications
I always enjoy reading Matt Webb’s presentations. This morning he posted “App after App: a zoology of next year’s web applications” from Eurofoo. If the trends Matt points out do come to pass, things are going to be interesting. The web becomes even more situated in objects and spaces, even more smart and massive, and cheaper to run.
Matt’s “Atom for Applications” idea is especially great: instead of delivering just a chunk of content, also deliver a user interface widget with which to deal with that content. We’re starting to see that in trivial ways already with things like FeedFlare, which adds relevent services to feed entries. (Like this blog post? Digg it now!) Basecamp’s project milestone calendar feeds include links to let you check off that you’ve finished a task. What if this were even better? Amazon could deliver a feed of books with “Buy now” buttons embedded in it. Netflix could deliver a simple queue manager widget in feeds of suggested films. Neat.
Posted by Andrew at September 21, 2006 01:53 PM
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