Web 2.0: The Web OS
Notes from the Web 2.0 workshop “Dialing the App Tone: How the Early
Web OS is Shaping Up”.
Speakers are Rich Skrenta, Topix.net,
and Stuart Butterfield, Ludicorp.
Rich wrote a paper about how Google was actually building a Web OS, a
brand new computing platform. Stuart then explained how the “Web OS”
idea comes from the concept of an OS as a set of underlying tools that
developers build their apps on top of. Today open APIs (such as those
of Stuart’s flickr) let
developers build applications on top of existing web services (although
Google’s platform is for the most part only available to Google’s
internal developers).
