My new web world
Hello World.
I’ve been writing web applications and working on web news sites for years now.
In fact, I’ve spent just about every day (like many of you) thinking about where this stuff was going and what it all meant.
Books like The Cluetrain Manifesto and Smart Mobs have helped as well as the great bloggings of Jon Udell, Steve Rubel, and of course Dave Winer.
I suppose I should mention IT Conversations as well which has forever changed my daily walks with Satch, the beagle. here
For some reason, I didn’t jump right into publishing a blog, though I’ve been reading them for years. I wasn’t sure I had something to say, but of course that was a foolish notion, since (in true Cluetrain fashion) I’ve been talking and complaining about this stuff everyday at work since 1998.
I guess today is the day for me to join the conversation.
Here is my “EveryBuddy Manifesto”:
I no longer believe in the web.
At least not in the sense of posting a document out to some platform away from this world. The term cyberspace bemoans the concept that this is a different world than ours. A parallel universe. We ask about someone, “Are they on the web?”, as if it were another place separate from our world.
I no longer believe in the web.
Or do I believe in it so much that that I’ve come around full circle. Reminiscent of The Planet of the Apes series of movies, time becomes an unbroken cycle for humanity, and the ultimate destination is understanding who we are, who others are, and who we have been.
So what do I believe in? Instant Messaging. Once we add social network and RSS features to IM applications, this will be the only platform we will ever need. At that point, we will emerged from the wormhole we are now traveling in.
The web will have become so important and so empowering to person to person and group to group communication that it will cease to be another place where we go. We will always be there.
Let’s reel this in from the hypothetical to that which is currently possible.
My Mac came with Apache installed. Of course it came with an Intsant Messenger and an email client.
If I’m willing to expose content through RSS 2.0 or Bit Torrent, willing to communicate with Google Talk or Skype, then where is the need for a web page?
What is needed is only a way to find each other. Search is currently only a web service because we are currently using the web pages to share information.
Imagine this scnario.
“Where is that RSS 2.0 spec?”
. . . searching . . . found 2376 copies, would you like one?
“Yes, and bring me the twenty highest ranked Blogs that link to the spec and see if any of the authors are available to speak with.”
I know some of you are saying, “Big deal, you are describing a peer to peer world which may or may not happen for a great number of reasons.”
I say it is a big deal. It’s a peer world much richer than file-sharing or chat. It’s a world where everything that wants to be available is available, to anyone, at any time, with NO INTERMEDIARIES!
If I want to sell my bike, I expose a blog post with the classified ad or auction details and sit back and wait. No need to login to eBay, they’ll find it.
In the way that Blogging is making publishers out of everybody, RSS and Instant Messengers will make peer web services out of every possible item (pun intended) you can imagine.
The web will have permeated our world to such a degree that it will cease to be a place we go. Like Charlton Heston in the final scene of the original Planet of the Apes, we will realize we have returned home. The only thing left will be the din of human conversation.
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[…] . . . how ’bout the RSS Messenger. John Tropea of Library Clips comes closest I’ve seen to my everybuddy manifesto. Which is to say, after all the dust settles, we won’t need web pages anymore. Just conversation. The web will disintermediate itself. Mar 13 2006 09:10 pm | Uncategorized | […]
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I love IM and it has replaced email for some things but I like being able to have various avenues to find archived data and at the moment I like email still.
Larisa
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