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First we had MySpace and sites like that, then now I would say the big thing is blogging and rss and social bookmarking sites like digg etc.
What does everybody think will be the next 'BIG' web fad? -
- CommentAuthorljromanoff
- CommentTimeMay 3rd 2007
I think your timeline is a bit out of order.
In any event, if I had to guess I would say the next big INTERNET 'fad' will be tighter web/desktop application integration, through things like Microsoft Silverlight.
The next big WEB fad? I don't know. Maybe if someone makes online video conferencing as easy as MySpace made online video sharing? Either that or 3-D immersive environments like Second Life becoming more mainstream. -
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CommentAuthoradjustafresh
- CommentTimeMay 3rd 2007
The next web fad is the death of the Internet in its current form. People won't have to log into their computer and open a web browser to access the Internet. The Internet will be immersive--all around us all of the time and ultra-personalized.
Web browsers will go the way of the Betamax and 8-Track Cassette player. Content will be delivered via widgets, personal hand-held devices, automobiles, household appliances, billboards; everywhere you look--something will be delivering content (or advertising) that Google thinks will be relevant to you. (And you thought debugging IE6 was a pain in the ass.) -
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Myspace is the new geocites
or, in other words, crappy websites -
Interactive videofeeds through your webcam, thats what missing on sites like MySpace. Not only can you post messages to each other, but you can talk person to person live on the website.
So mringlein is correct, the only change we will see is just better myspace versions :) Its all about interactivity. -
Getting a little more serious -- I think the next big thing is going to be two-fold; conflicting elements actually.
Simple is in large demand right now -- everyone wants "simple" and more and more people are realizing that simple is hard and complex is easy. If you can design and create "simple" in an effective and aesthetically pleasing way-- you are not going to have a hard time finding work in the next couple years.
On that note though -- as things such as Silverlight become more and more common place, the request for television quality websites are going to pop-up. I don't know if this will be successful, useful or even feasible -- but it sure as well become more and more in demand. The web designer that can't edit, mix and optimize video will be like the web designer today who can't use Photoshop -- sure you can get away without it, but it isn't the same. -
how about the transition from all things technology incorporating the internet? there are ovens, televisions, and refrigerators connected to net right now...and even tv channels are accessible to the net...I think Joost and other related sites/companies will start to emerge and be as influential as social networking sites...
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Reading the posts, I think there are many new things to come, in the areas applications, media, consumer electronics, etc...
On the short term I think a next big thing will be the move from desktop to web applications, like those of 37signals.com. -
I started playing around with http://www.netvibes.com/ recently and it is truly superb. It's not really a new idea (aggregating your own content from your favourite sites), but, the way it has been implemented and the amount of modules available is very good.
I also agree with vuurvos05 who said that applications will move from the desktop to the web. I think heavy applications like multimedia content editing will still be done on the desktop, but a lot of the less memory heavy ones will move to the web.
In the context of this forum, I think Drupal ( http://www.drupal.org ) will become the leader in web 2.0 development tools. I think the stats at the moment are as high as 1 in 5 new websites are being developed using Drupal. I've been using it for a few years now and it is similar to Joomla and other tools like that, but, the rate of development recently has skyrocketted. From a CSS point of view, Drupal's themeing (layout and design) philosophy is designed for control by CSS. A little knowledge of simple php is a help, but, overall it's respect of CSS is unrivalled in the open source CMS/web 2.0 tools genre.. -
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CommentAuthoradjustafresh
- CommentTimeMay 18th 2007 edited
DD said:I also agree with vuurvos05 who said that applications will move from the desktop to the web. I think heavy applications like multimedia content editing will still be done on the desktop, but a lot of the less memory heavy ones will move to the web.
You're thinking about them as if they are two separate things. The web will be your desktop... your television... your car...your refrigerator.
As far as Drupal goes--I'm very impressed with it. I am currently directing a very large-scale and high profile project that will feature several websites; the architecture of all of them will be driven by Drupal. The out of the box features and wealth of modules made it a no-brainer for what will ultimately be a suite of very feature-rich websites. -
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You're thinking about them as if they are two separate things. The web will be your desktop... your television... your car...your refrigerator.
Good point, but, I think vuurvos05 was talking about online applications - in the true sense of the term.
I've seen a producer (I work for record labels & artists) carry out some last minute edits on a promo-video on a train over the web. The processing (or application) was actually happening back in his studio - he was simply accessing his studio computer over the web, which is not quite an 'online application', but, I can see the argument that the 'web is his desktop' and while it's not rocket science to suggest a web server company could specialise in offering online video processing - on their servers, I can't see it happening anytime soon. I think the memory and processing requirements are simply too heavy. Ditto for music mixing and other memory heavy applications. It will be a while before that becomes an 'online application', in the same way word processing and other day-to-day tasks can easily be handled by an online app.
I maybe wrong on that, but, good choice with Drupal. I looked at a few different options a while back and Drupal just ticked so many boxes, it was streets ahead of the rest. -
- CommentAuthordmitryseliv
- CommentTimeMay 24th 2007
Technology does developing extremely rapidly our days.
Broadband connections became more affordable and faster. Internet will became like a service utilities the same as we using electricity or water every day. The other thing is who using this technologies it seems like older people know nothing about that or simply don’t care on other hand we have young generation who is striving for new things and eager to learn. It’s hard to say what would be the next big thing on a web but most likely we going to see more applications providers which integrates with the everyday peoples live.
We also need to take in consideration computer hardware we can see it right now everything became smaller and probably we going to see even smaller devices. Perhaps in future we will see P4 packed in size of cell phone with virtual holographic interface. Things like monitors and keyboard will go away.
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Completely agreed with dmitry and the others above, as the world evolves in terms of technology, so will the internet and the way that it is viewed. The internet2 is already being used and tested between universities and organizations, what does this mean? a ridiculous speed boost, we will find ourselves in a huge jump in terms of media and what is transported. Will we even use emails in the near future? I think we will use the basic idea of an email, but like mail getting digitized, I'm sure we are going to move on to a new form of mail, most likely videomail as a first step. We will have the broadband capabilities for that. Anyone catch a glimpse of Microsoft Surface? Pretty impressive ideas I must say, with the iPhone around the corner, the surface, I'm sure we will be ditching the concept the keyboard and mouse and moving on to IO devices we can hardly imagine. With this, a fully integrated web of not computers, but people (has anyone seen that picture of the rfid tag implanted in the hand?).
-Sean
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