Where is the desktop in Web 2.0?
As the year comes to a close as a start-up we are hearing more and more about how 2005 was the year of Web 2.0. With articles like Web 2.0 mania revives dot-com investing and Wall Street Journal's Best of Web 2.0 it looks like some of the major shifts to a more dynamic web are becoming better understood and gaining traction both with consumers and with enterprises. Hey - Newsgator just announced that they have already deployed 20 enterprise RSS server customers. But along with the rush to make collaborative services for sharing photos, links, and to do lists there is the other trend of people finally getting some of the tools they are looking for onto their computer desktop. The big ones for 2005 was the desktop phone thanks to Skype and the usable desktop search thanks to X1, Google, and Microsoft. But in general the desktop isn't very involved in Web 2.0 yet. It is a private place sometimes shared through Live Meeting or Go To My PC but collaboration from tools like Groove fell into a black hole at Microsoft. There were some tools that we have seen like Soonr and Foldershare that have been launched to start to make the PC more available on the net in the Web 2.0 world but neither has taken the world by storm just yet.
So our prediction here at Viapoint is that one of the next major stops for Web 2.0 is for the desktop computing environment to be easy to extend any type of item to be shared as a web page/link to peers or just accessed by the desktop owner over the web. So one initiative that we are working on as everyone else enjoys their holidays is to steer the Viapoint 2.0 product towards a more collaborative Web 2.0 model in order to bring the desktop and tagging on the desktop to the web. Any input, feedback, and thoughts from users is, as always, much appreciated.
3 Comments:
Dan, hey great to see that SoonR is on your radar. I wanted to inquire about something though. Can you quantify the term "taken the world by storm"? I think SoonR will be the one to do it. WE have been in beta for just over 3 months and things are accelerating quite nicely. Keep an eye on us in 2006! Happy Holidays.
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