Web 2.5: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside

Link: Web 2.5: The emergence of platforms-as-a-service | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com. Just when we started to understand Web 2.0 (interactive web sites that allowed user interaction with information stored on the web), or "cloud computing", (doing real work on data and programs stored elsewhere, and SaaS (Software As A Service), running programs and accessing data in web browsers, now we have to deal with the half-step to Web 3.0 (the semantic web, which I have no idea about). Web 2.5 appears to be the migration from software applications and data over the web to "platform computing" over the web. Google's App Engine enters a field in which developers can use Google's servers to create applications that will be served over the web. In the future, you won't even have to have your own servers to create stuff for users to pay you to use. This may be a way to partially control legal applications that are created for lawyers to use on the web, since the developer will control just about everything. It's a brave new world.

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[Kyle McFarlin]

...Anything that keeps me from being a server farmer.