The Web is Dead. NOT! Ok, not exactly..

Chris Anderson (Long Tail, Wired, Free) threw another conundrum at the Web World:
"The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet"

Given that you're reading this on the Web, clearly the Web is NOT dead. But that aside, there's something valid and also overstated in his report. Here's strictly my 2c.

Valid point: We increasingly get our information through Applications rather than via a web browser. E.g, I get my gmail and techcrunch feeds through an iphone app, not from the .com.

However:

• The fact that I use a "closed system' like Facebook mobile app doesn't mean that the Web is dead. It's just working in the background.
• Also, 10min of Video consumes lot more bandwidth than 10min of reading CNN.com. The graph at the start is rather misleading.

IMO, some of the concrete trends are:

1. Desktop Browsing is giving way to Apps on the Mobile (partly because mobile browsers have not been that good, compared to a mobile app)
2. Pull to Push
3. M2M content
4. Facebook Apps over standalone apps over dotcom sites
   

what do you think? Do you see that we will see more Apps than Web sites in the future? Will we see more stand-alone apps (e.g., apps on iphone) or ecosystem apps (e.g., apps that only live in Facebook)?

thanks, vishy

Vishy Poosala

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