Week of 2010/08/15

[Comment]

Is The Web Dead? A question that recently seems to pop-up more frequently. The driving force behind that statement/question is the fact that users on smartphones, iPads, but also desktops switch from using regular web-browsers to using dedicated apps to access their web-sites. A move away from HTML driven pages towards more native applications.

I personally don't think that the html-based web will disappear. Instead it will become one of many UI-technologies to access the same underlying data. A thought nicely stated in a blog post I recently came accross, "Is The Web Dead?": " ..the founder said, 'everything we do is cloud-based, with an API, and mobile friendly'. He did not say 'everything we do runs in a browser.'".

[NyTimes]

• "Shopkick App Pushes Bargains, Aisle by Aisle" [nytimes]
• "North Korea Takes to Twitter and YouTube" [nytimes]
• "Facebook Unveils Service to Announce Locations" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Hand-Eye Supply [link]
• Bulthaup's painfully beautiful "tool cabinet" for kitchens [link]
• Biodegradable Pen [link]
• Video: Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy [link]