Prediction of the Future of the Web 2008
Social communities (networks) in 2007 were so much concentrated on developing its own grounds and have users loyal to one and not another. If we take facebook as an example, Facebook has invested so much in having its own unique platform in a hope that this platform will be the dominant one in the Internet and maybe it is right now.
Facebook applications had to be based on FB markup language and not much of API to have external FB application. Not to mention, FB weren’t that excited about Google’s OpenSocial (OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites.) initiave as much as other Social Communities out there (i.e MySpace, LinkedIn, etc).
But anyway, I think this type of mindset will change by end of 2008, where it will be a really distributed model of the web. Where it doesn’t matter if your widgets or applications are on one platform or another (i.e. facebook, myspace, orkut, etc) because they will be distributed across all networks.
Also, the method that users will use to lookup or search friends and their status will be on a common search interface such as Google and Yahoo. With a search interface, users will not be limited to lookup or be friends with from other networks that they are not member of. Here is an example:
Think of a user that is 45 years old that is member of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn but not Myspace due to demographics.. And he wants to connect to his daughter, then without going out of his environment he will be able to lookup his daughter’s profile and even be friended with her.
Now that is my predicition of the future of the web 2008!
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
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