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Jeff Kramer
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Monthly Wrap Up
The end of April’s getting close, which means that summer’s on it’s way and making it’s presence felt. As a web developer I’m still feeling the after-shocks of Facebook’s F8 conference. A lot of things were presented, but as the biggest platform on the web even their smallest change sends seismic waves through the foundations of what we build upon. Connect is dead, OAuth 2.0 is the future, arguably the meta-point aggregation system I was talking about earlier will be Facebook Points, the like button will come to a wide variety of pages on the web, brs are the new way of integrating, and a huge user/web backlash may be coming, nobody knows. This year is going to be a tumultuous one, the iPad is fighting to break out of it’s shell, mobile is coming on strong and people are starting to make real money, the economy’s still in the toilet in a lot of places and nobody knows what the future really holds for the environment. Apple, Google and Microsoft are having a three way shadow war for the future of the tech industry, with Facebook as the dark horse coming up fast and Amazon as the incumbent punching bag. Yahoo’s off in a corner crying to itself.
It’s a good thing that new development platforms make creating sites and systems easy, because nobody knows what’s going to happen or be the state of the art in a year. Will Facebook Points be the next Flooz or will they be the next PayPal? 300 million users is a pretty good head start.
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