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Debatte: Stirbt das World Wide Web?

Die stets großartige Zeitschrift WIRED bringt einen ausführlichen Beitrag zum wachsenden Bedeutungsverlust des World Wide Web:

Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display. It's driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing, and it's a world Google can't crawl, one where HTML doesn't rule. And it's the world that consumers are increasingly choosing, not because they're rejecting the idea of the Web but because these dedicated platforms often just work better or fit better into their lives (the screen comes to them, they don't have to go to the screen). The fact that it's easier for companies to make money on these platforms only cements the trend. Producers and consumers agree: The Web is not the culmination of the digital revolution.

Die Grundaussage des Artikels darf freilich mit guten Gründen bezweifelt werden, auch die einleitende Grafik ist wegen der Orientierung an den auf die einzelnen Dienste entfallenden Bandbreiten eher unglücklich. Dennoch: lesenswert (auch die dazugehörige Debatte)!

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).