We were all so excited when the first Microsoft Office products came out.\u00a0 Not that other products were comparatively that bad, but there seemed to be a new vision of usability in the buttons and layout of the product.\u00a0 As time has progressed, we\u2019ve all gotten very comfortable with the desktop application and most of us use them in our everyday lives.\u00a0 Over the last 5 years, we\u2019ve also started getting used to the web application.\u00a0 These started out as HTML pages that we used in our personal lives \u2013 either bidding on eBay or ordering from Amazon.com.\u00a0 But gradually, B2B applications started popping up and we\u2019d spend more of our work lives on the web.\u00a0 Today, most applications are actually delivered with a web browser user interface, so even though the application may be sitting behind the corporate firewall, we still look at it through the lens of a web page.<\/p>\n
A few years ago, technology started getting good enough (really with the advent of Java first) that we could begin using our software applications with less HTML and more interactivity.\u00a0 It was clear that a full page refresh every time a query was made or part of a transaction needed to be saved was simply not going to work.\u00a0 Now with Web 2.0, we have web based applications that look more like interactive applications than like the HTML web pages of old.\u00a0 They allow the user to interact with them without visible refreshes, calling data for the user seamlessly and without pause, so that the user can progress with work with minimal wait.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?\u00a0 As we go through applications and begin embedding social networks into them, we seem to have the ability to instantaneously reach out to other data sources, processes and people from these same functional applications.\u00a0 Querying knowledge and people with the touch of a button through a network to achieve instant collaboration is really the next generation, not more functionality.\u00a0 Application providers are already looking at this, but with an undefined Web 2.0 networking market, simply integrating Facebook and LinkedIn are immature and early answers.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have to see how both the Web 2.0 provider space develops and then see how the application providers answer the call for behind the firewall networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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