Looking at the next generation of Web Applications

Jon Robb calls it Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0? It is a system that breaks with the old model of centralized Web sites and moves the power of the Web/Internet to the desktop. It includes three structural elements: 1) a source of content, data, or functionality (a website, a Web service, a desktop PC peer), 2) an open system of transport (RSS, XML-RPC, SOAP, P2P, and too an extent IM), and 3) a rich client (desktop software). Basically, Web 2.0 puts the power of the Internet in the hands of the desktop PC user where it belongs.

Of course, that is what Central is all about, but one thing that make HTML attactive is the easy availability of OS controls (on Windows, Mac and Linux) this is really important for ease of development. Zeepe seems to do this on windows, wonder if it could be made cross-OS

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