Beyond Web 2.0 Provides a Research Proposal

0, encompassing data aggregation, the ability to manage projections of data from content repositories and the ability to create cross-products or mash-ups. The article's title connotes this ambitious direction, and the author delivers with some excellent insights as well. The article concludes with the section, the User-Oriented Web: A Total Perspective section that discusses how aggregation, projection and mashups will impact users, the author ties together the progression of technological developments from a technological and process standpoint effectively. The significance of the article is both as a refresher of key concepts but also of explanations of how to web gadgets are going to revolutionize Web application development as well.

Lessons Learned

This is an excellent article for refreshing ones' knowledge of the core building blocks of Web software development, in addition to defining how best to interpret and put into context the rapidly growing popularity of AJAX in the context of Web gadgets. There are also excellent overviews of how, through both creative and chaotic maturation of standards, Web application development was able to attain application-level independence of data on Web-based applications. The use of aggregations, projections and mashups all also underscore how Web development is going to progress for the next few years. In addition to all these points, the transitional role CSS continues to play in developing Web-based applications is provided in this article as well.

Questions Raised By Author

The author raises the questions of why specific standards meant to unify Web application development have failed, in addition to questing if Web gadgets are going to be the future of development for the foreseeable future.He also raises questions as to the extensibility of CSS style sheets and the accomplishment of data-level independence on the part of Web-based applications overall. He also specifically questions the transition of interactive applications that require a browser to be opened to use vs. The use of web gadgets to accomplish comparable design objectives. The author also looks into the future of and sees a series of gadgets that allow for Web users to personalize their news and information sources, tailoring them to their unique interests. Finally, the author raises the question of how aggregations, projections and mashups will be able to produce a unified experience for users when there is variation in data and application integration standards. This is the most pivotal aspect of the author's future vision.

Reference

(Raman, 2009)

TV Raman. (2009).Toward Web 2(w), Beyond Web 2.0. Association for Computing Machinery. Communications of the ACM, 52(2), 52.….....