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Cool things are afoot. My world is full of exciting topics that I’m lookig forward to thinking about out-loud on this blog.
There’s the whole Ajax/DHTML/Rich Internet Application (RIA) thing which is everywhere, and presents both fantastic opportunities to create a more delightful user exerience (faster, more interactive, more familiar) and also new challenges that must be tackled (accessibility, affordances).
I’m excited about browsers too. While there are more browsers on the market than ever before, they’re also of the highest quality we’ve seen. IE7 is around the door, and the word on the street is pretty good. Firefox continues to innovate, and I’m excited to begin developing to the DHTML Accessibility work that IBM has contributed, with the W3C, and that is already live in the alpha’s of Deer Park.
Mobile is still exciting to me, though unfortunately I missed the Mobile Monday event tonight.
And don’t forget about Web Services, the opening of API’s, and the whole so-called Web 2.0 thing. This is, I believe, the beginning of a new phase of design and development of tools and products, as well as a democratization of the same. It’s hard to even imagine at this point how people are going to mix and match to solve problems.
And then there’s the tagging thing, the notion of folksonomy, and the general rise in user generated content and distributed organization.
What excites you these days?
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Walter September 13th, 2005 - 7:24 pm
dot-com days: e-commerce, B2B
nowadays: community, connecting ppl in other ways than a browser, maturing user interfaces
Administrator September 13th, 2005 - 8:32 pm
Absolutely Walter. The exciting aspect of tagging isn’t just the better organization of my own content, but the ability to find other people’s content, and through that other people themselves.
And you’re right on when you mention user interfaces too. Ajax may be based on old technology (Oddpost, Launce, Netflix and others have been doing it for years), but the refocus on interface innovation that it’s created is very welcome indeed. The other thing happening to interfaces is that they’re being created by more and more people… The remixes of Flickr content, of Maps content, and so forth, are going to make the pace of improvement go through the roof.
Hang on tight :)
Administrator September 13th, 2005 - 8:33 pm
(oops, looks like I’ll have to figure out how to disable emoticons and make my comments show up at Nate not Administrator. Doh.)
Justin Thorp September 13th, 2005 - 9:11 pm
The stuff that the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative and the Web Accessibility Initiative are working on really excites me. I love the idea of the web as a universal medium. It is something where you can reach anyone wherever they are at.
People are having the oppurtunity to express their viewpoint, be creative, and receive information where they at, like never before.