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21 Juin 2007
Ajit Jaokar talk
Key is understanding the terms, such as web2.0. He uses o'Reilly as basis: web as platform, harnessing collective intelligence. Mobile Web 2.0 just at the device to Web 2.0. (how many web enabled mobile devices are there?) However standards on mobiles are still lacking. Widgets might help here. Widget Widget Web. Web is breaking up into small pieces. Widgets seem to be the web-pages of the future.
Ajit sees intertwingularity as key. One should not look at information as a hierarchy, but as network. Web 2.0 is pushing content out.
The idea of widgets as the new web-page for mobile devices is a nice eye-opener. I think I like that. I would call a widget then a MicroContent Client, but then for specific devices. The widgets I looked at from a MicroContent Client perspective are extremely simple clients from a functional perspective.
So I guess the idea that Apple sees Ajax as key for apps on the iPhone is a very important step. Are widgets easy to create? Ajit thinks yes, it however seems still difficult to me. Still waiting for widgets. (Check out widsets.com for creating widgets). Should become very easy. Problem is however that installing widgets is still difficult.
Is iPhone a walled garden? Yes and No. Yes form an app point of view. No from a a web-view. Widgets might feel like as apps. If the iPhone supports nice bookmarking, the user might not see the difference.
Problem are the adults, digital divide here. Is a societal issue. Losing the elders? What is the influence on social issues? But I guess we talk about the whole Internet here and how it changes society.
Services as Facebook might lead the field towards widget adoption and aid in adoption. Japan and Korea are not an example for Europe or US.