Mashups, Collaboration by Design
March 4th, 2006
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There is a breathtaking graph shown by Phillip Boxer at his blog
Asymetric Design embedded in an article called “Interoperability Landscapes”. It is amazing to see the collaboration being conducted between Amazon, Google, and eBay mashups across the web. There is a distinct difference between this collaboration and the silo of Microsoft-based mashups in the diagram.
The Web 2.0 has been defining itself and gaining market share over the past few years. Using the web as a service platform has been the model for many successful companies. As I think about the role of technologies such as Jini, Ruby, and
SOA, I tend to believe they have less to provide in the overall structure than plain old simplicity. Tim O‘Reilly descibes this well in his article “What is Web 2.0″ in which he defines the common elements of the successful Web 2.0 stories.
Is there a new language that can be key in this new simple, collaborative, and asymetric world we are being pulled into. It almost seems like software will need new creativity, process, and ultimately collaboratory nature to meet the needs of the Web 2.0.
