Web TechnologiesMiles Metcalfe, 2009-01-27

Overview

• Software development

• SaaS in the browser

• Web 2.0 and social software

• The semantic web

• Sharing, sharecropping and pirates, arr

Software development

• Beyond tag soup

• Ajax

• MVC and other paradigms

• Frameworks

Quick demo

Software as a service

• In the browser

• Ajax: HTML+CSS+Javascript, or Flash RIA

• Ease of deployment

• Ease of maintenance

• Rental revenue streams

• Available anywhere (you have broadband)

Social software

• If it’s on the web, it’s easy to share

• Networked applications by default

• Adds value to “traditional” software

• Has “viral” potential

• Ubiquitous networking standard: new tools, new business models

Semantic web

• Data, information … meaning

• You do it, the machine does it, or somewhere in-between

• RDF, RDFa, Microformats

• Web 3.0. Why bother?

Sharing

• A crisis in intellectual property

• Bad for IP owners, and bad for consumers

• Bakunin, Schumpeter: “creative disruption”

• Advertising. Really?

• Who benefits from the “free content” meme?

Questions