Naturally, my comment is that everyone forgets about integrating to the mobile…
Link: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog � What is Web 2.0… take two.
This past Wednesday I posted this definition of Web 2.0. …“a collection of technologies – be it VoIP, Digital Media, XML, RSS, Google Maps… whatever …. that leverage the power of always on, high speed connections and treat broadband as a platform, and not just a pipe to connect.” Today Tim O’Reilly comes up with a similar definition… Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform. This is good and the right path. I hope others realize that the PC-centric approach is myopic and very US centric. The wireless broadband is upon us…. it changes the game quite a bit, and the champions of Web 2.0 should prepare for that change.
You are absolutely correct. Last night I was at a Web 2.0 meet and was going to write a post about my thoughts. The key takeaway for me was that the assortment of applications that were demo’ed at the event, no one was talking about leveraging the installed base of devices as the network. It was still a PC Centric view of the world.