Sunday, March 19, 2006

Web 3.0 Maturity Model

I'm attending the Spark conference - a Microsoft sponsored event to discuss SOA, Software as a Service and Web 2.0.

The conversation has been a bit chaotic. It is clear that we are covering a lot of ground - perhaps too much ground. Architecting the future using terminology that is not baked isn't easy. All of the participants come from different backgrounds and have different views of what SOA is - what SaaS is - what Web 2.0 is. And no, we weren't able to find the silver bullet. I think we did make progress in finding some common ground about what is 'new' and 'different'.

The conversation has inspired a few thoughts around the aforementioned subjects. Again - no answers - perhaps more questions.

One of the discussion topics was Web 2.0 - although there was no conclusion on the tenets/philosophies of Web 2.0 a handful of attributes were repeated: User Centric, Self Service, Collaborative, Participative, Communal Organization, Lately Bound Composition, etc.

This led to yet another discussion about lack of 'mission critical' capabilities of the Web 2.0 and started the discussion of Web 3.0 - perhaps focusing more on the needs of the corporation. I put together the following illustration as a way to frame a discussion around the Web X.0:
What are the technical barriers?
What were the technical enablers?
What new capability did this enable the user or business?

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