Web Prediction – What are the next BIG things?
The Web 2.0 and Social Media development have been taking more and more spotlights in the last twelve months. Every discussions about web technologies have always been either the new Web 2.0 apps or integration with Social Media.
Here are some of the things that I predict will be BIG in the next 6-12 months:
1. Facebook Connect
URL: http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php
More and more sites are leveraging this to allow their visitors to connect to their Facebook account and reach out to their Facebook friends. Facebook connect allows site to “embed” facebook functionalities such as share to friends, comments, post to wall directly from the site (without going to Facebook sites). Facebook opens up more and more functionalities under this wing. Rather than building your own social network, why not just integrate with Facebbok?
2. Open ID
URL: http://openid.net/
This is another big undertaken that has been slowly adopted by all major social media sites including Facebook. This allow users to use one login to access all their favorite Web 2.0 sites. This also opens up the door of communication between one site to another. Big retailer Sears just recently announced of supporting Open ID on their community sites: MySears and MyKmart.com.
3. HTML 5.0
URL: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/html5.asp
The new spec of HTML is out and adding a lot of Web 2.0 specific functionalities to the core HTML. Now you embed video directly to HTML without the need of external player. Another big thing in HTML 5.0 is to allow having local storage of data (this will replace what we do with cookies todays) If you haven’t checked the spec out, make sure you start looking to it. Firefox 3.5, Opera and Safari 4 have already support this.
4. Google Wave!!!
URL: http://wave.google.com/
If you have not watched their video presentation of Google Wave, go search at Google and watch it. It is too cool to miss out. From the same brothers who create the awesome Google Maps, they are trying to revolutionize the way people communicate to each other. This is going to change everything we know about online communication and colaboration. Moreover, they meant for both personal and corporate world! No more Exchange Server, Share Point and Facebook? 
Alright, see you all on my next report.
