mediajunkfor newmediajunkiesWelcome to the Innovation Era!- January 27, 2008 In my last entry, I argued that we were seeing the end of the internet era. My thinking was that the Cambrian explosion in internet technologies has ground to a halt. Websites have become standardised -- two column or three column layout, horizontal tabbed main menu, vertical local menu. HTML, like the QWERTY keyboard, is here to stay. Today, cyberfriends, I want to tell you that it's not all doom and gloom. Yes, the internet revolution is over, but only in its technical domain. Now that the..http://www.mediajunk.com/public/archives/2008/01/welcome_to_the_innovation_era.html End of the Internet Era- January 5, 2008 As I was reading ReadWrite Web's predictions for 2008, it struck me: there will be no dramatic new web-based technologies this coming year, or (perhaps) ever again. The Internet Era, which began in the early 1990s, is coming to an end. Web 2.0 did not signal a new acceleration in technological development; rather, it was an afterthought, an increase in both usability and availability of online tools, allowing the public to engage on a mass scale. Yes, we are going to see further enhancements..http://www.mediajunk.com/public/archives/2008/01/end_of_the_internet_era.html |