Web Trends 2006 – is yesterday’s news…: “In late-december 2005 I sat down and tried to guess what the future would be like here in 2006 – that is about a month ago. Now, I was imagining that I was being bold, and that life had to, in some mysterious way, get just right for it to actually happen – at least in 2006 instead of 2007… or 2009. I was wrong – terribly wrong! One company changed several of my predictions into yesterday’s news – only 9 days after 2006 had started. Nine freaking days… That company is Apple. I predicted things like ‘The internet as a pipeline is getting started – in the second half of 2006’. But, with Apple’s new photocasting it is already here. This allows you to work in a desktop based environment at both the start and the finish – all connected trough the internet. This is an amazingly good way to utilize the internet as a pipeline. It is also the future of web applications (more on that later). I also predicted that ‘interoperability is the key’, which is very clearly visible in the way Apple’s new iLife applications work together – and more importantly, extends the capabilities of each application. This is a classic example of development on an exponential rate – add one thing and use it for two things (more on that later too).
