The Death of Web 2.0

I though the title might get your attention but what I really want to talk about is the death of web apps like Google's spreadsheet app and word processor and the other web apps like them that try to emulate the desktop environment on a web page. Lets go back to the beginning of computers. We really didn't have a personal computer instead we had a computer and a mainframe and the mainframe contained all the apps and code that you needed if it wasn't in the mainframe you didn't need it (or so some people say). If the mainframe was to ever go down then your computer was down and you couldn't do anything until the main frame was back up and running. We experienced a small taste of this a few days ago when YouTube went down and was down for 6 hours. Say that I was a business man and I used google spreadsheet because I was tight and couldn't afford it, what would happen to my spreadsheets and customer info? I wouldn't have access anything for 6 hours I could lose tons of business. For this reason I think most web 2.0 apps are going to prove to be just toys that people play with. I think that the web 2.0 should concentrate more on collaboration and people being able to talk to you and user generated content. Don't get me wrong these apps are great but I don't really see this going any where but just as a toy and a convenience not as a real viable substitute for Open Office or Excel.

Hey Everyone

Hey everyone my name is Chris Maness and I hope that this blog will be helpful to you I'm going to try and keep this site web developer centered (all though the ocasional design tip might be sliped in here and there). I hope you all enjoy this and most of all I hope it helps you in some way. I hope to discuss several different programing languages and may be we might all learn something.