first off, happy birthday to my dad, i could write a whole book on our relationship but ill save that for fly.paper
Cruising my RSSsubscriptions i found a little blurb from the web 2.oh conference with Tim Berners-Less who apparently was the final interviewee of the Conference. Cnet posted some of the Highlights on his talk which i'm sure was scattered and annoyingly stop-and-go; BUTthe inventor of HTTP made some good points from his historical promontory.
Check out the full article Here
You can see him stating to bring together the concept of linked data with HTML5 and the capabilities to forgo web applications and turn the web into an application.
Forge trust. Berners-Lee says, "One of the whole gating factors of getting the whole world of Web apps to take off is trust." He says that when Web apps get data from different services and those services similarly reach out to others, how do users, customers, and companies ever learn to trust a single site? What's the solution? He doesn't know, but believes it's an opportunity: "If we get a really good solution to the problem, then Web apps will be amazing."
I think the solution will be browsers that pull information in, in aggregate rather than whisk you off to a "Destination" per se. I think in this instance the power will be in the browser to keep you sitting still while information, web apps and data rush towards you rather than the current model of being delivered to a specific destination by our browser. a serendipitious web if you will.
If you want it everywhere, give it away. The Twitter founders must have heard this message before they built their product. When asked why Berners-Lee never thought about charging for the Web, the answer was practical and capitalistic. "Because we wanted it everywhere," He said. "We wanted a URL for every page." And he got it. Ubiquity would not have been possible with competing, paid hypertext systems.
yay opensource.
Don't build your laws into the Web. "Technology shouldn't tell you what's right and what's wrong," Berners-Lee said. "The rule of law applies on the Web. It's a platform for humanity." He does not appear believe that it is appropriate to code local laws onto the global platform, preferring to leave enforcement to existing means--police and courts.
I hope the FCC, verizon, ATT, conglomo bell etc are listening. Because Net Neutrality is a key to the evolution of the web and ultimately humanity. They need to think of it as growing pains, i'm sorry you have to spend money to speed up your networks so that your user base has equal access to the resources out there without having to bend the rules of traffic so your people/devices/information can go first, thats just not a sustainable solution. Besides if you don't want to provide service to people you should not be an Internet Service Provider.
like i said read the rest of Tim's Talking Points Here