Bill Thompson has a very interesting article at The Register about Web 2.0 and AJAX, in which he warns for the dictatorship of the presentation layer. "If Web 2.0 is the answer then we are clearly asking the wrong question", he says and he goes on that we should not be fooled by the cool sites and apparently open APIs.
According to him, most of it is window dressing, and that may be true if all you do is add some Javascript to an application. I agree with Bill that Web 2.0 is not the solution to all problems, but Web 2.0 allows you to build brandnew, innovative applications that were not feasible, or at least not so simple to build, without. Or as Sadagopan points out that mashups are transcending new frontiers as e.g. at HousingMaps.com.
Posted by admin at November 28, 2006 05:56 PM