The Next "Facebook Platform" for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter’s Running the Wrong Way
I’ve talked previously about “the web with no login button”, a vision of the Building Block Web that follows the user where they go, knowing who they are and adapting as they move. With the advent of mobile, entire operating systems running on the browser, cloud-based personal information stores and APIs such as Kynetx to […]
Read more...Kynetx Introduces the Programmable Internet – the Language of the Building Block Web
Several months ago I talked about a concept I call the Building Block Web. It’s the next evolution of platforms, with all different types of services able to communicate with each other and work together. Where Web 2.0 is “the Web as a platform”, the Building Block Web is “the Platform as the Platform.” I […]
Read more...How Does One Compete With This Beast? Here’s How:
As you can tell from this blog, my Tweets, and just about the entire blogosphere, the entire web is talking about Facebook making every website on the web a part of its own network. Basically, with a few lines of code copied into your own website you can immediately have access and share to 400 […]
Read more...What is Your Core?
In a typical Lego set, there is a core set of building blocks that make up the core of the object you are building. My son just got a new Star Wars Tie fighter Lego set. It relies on a few common objects, such as little flat Legos you might see in other sets, but […]
Read more...The Framework of the Building Block Web – An MVC Perspective
Recently I talked about the new web being that of “building blocks”, or “Lego bricks” setting the foundations for each application or website which encompasses the new internet. Applications that embrace this new architecture will both embrace the strengths of other applications and technologies through third-party APIs, as well as provide their own in order […]
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