Some time ago I, and several other colleagues, was asked by my managing director if I could help out answering what the “Future Web Will Resemble”. The following was my email reply to him, but I think it holds up as a blog post as well. I have expanded/clarified it slightly and also corrected obvious spelling mistakes or punctuation.
For me personally: I think the future of the web will be more geared towards offline, only managed online, so these are some that pop up in my head right now. First the ingredients:
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Back To The Future Of The Web
Back to the Future?
In April 2008 I wrote a blog post called FW: A question on what the ‘future web will resemble’ where I was trying to predict (well, give my view…) how I saw the web would pan out in the near future. My conclusion, which was based entirely on my own personal experiences and views, was that I would be looking for something somewhere that enabled me to manage “my web”, either on the web or as a desktop application, and which would bring my web to me, as opposed to forcing me to go to all these other sites and services to do various tasks.
I was reminded of that post today when I was reading this article on ReadWriteWeb regarding a “central dashboard”, which in turn linked off to both an originating post by Marc Canter, as this very much ties into the conclusion of my old blog post.
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