I've been focusing a lot on this 'so called' web 2.0 drive.
The enterprise web 2.0 linky that was posted earlier does a quick summary but in reality it's the same old technology rebranded.
AJAX or asynchronous javascript is technically 'childs play' and in reality is a simple HTTP call - I would really like to see web apps allow call backs that would really rock and not this AJAX crap.
Sites I am currently interested in are :
www.twitter.com and the mashups that have spawned from it :
http://twittervision.com/
http://pipes.yahoo.com/
http://labs.d********/swarm/ EDIT is digg banned ?
Its all about social networks and networking. Lot of lonely people in developed countries with the trend set for them to become more and more lonely. Hence with more and more people contributing it's only a matter of time till we get decent mashups of common people/body movement on the internet.
I was working on an application a couple of weeks back to correlate broadcasts (tweets or blogs) with a key/tag search that would enable you to make friends or follow people/blogs who have similar interests as you.
Unfortunately I'm a little small and don't have enough computing power to keep up with the million or so database row inserts per day that I am doing. Anyway I'll keep recording and one day release a search engine.
Social computing is the future - technology remains the same but the brand changes to make money - I think they puck it up again like the .bomb era afterwhich finally we'll get web 3.0 which I hope will turn the internet into just a series of streams (RSS and better) and web pages that are just blank canvases for you to drag and drop your widgets on and go.
Sounds a little too bland for the businesses these days as the only thing that pays on the internet is porn and advertising and so alas the scraping of my vision of web 3.0