Web 2.0: phase 2 - interoperability
Jonas passed on a great article to me written by Peter Rip of Crosslink Capital on his Early Stage VC blog about where we go from here regarding the web’s development. Peter claims that the energy of Web 2.0 is dissipating, illustrated by the Q4 declines of the 3 major 2.0-centric media outlets, TechCrunch, Technorati, GigaOm.
He further claims that the “easy” innovations (cheap{opensource}, simple{rss/rest}, and distinctive{ajax, flash}) have become mainstream. Thus, the next phase, he sees, as being much more difficult. He illustrated it as moving from a digital printing press (because publishing content has become so easy with digital/video cameras and blogging software) towards a more uniformed platform, where content and services are interoperable.
How do we get to a lingua franca without waiting for moribund standards (think CORBA and SOA)? How can we then manage the transition of legacy information and services into this world of interoperability?
VCs have always made money at finding the ideal point of friction between the Present and the Future. Profits accumulate in the gap between What Is and What Is Possible. Web 2.0 is now firmly in the category of What Is.
With all the effort into microformats and APIs, it’s hard to see the web as an archipelago of websites. But from a Swedish perspective, it would be refreshing to see more API and microformats being developed here… even if the user levels are low, but because the design and development of versatile application is only moving forward.
Hmmm.
Ebento API coming soon…?
[tags]web 2.0, API, Peter Rip, Early Stage VC, Venture Capital[/tags]
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