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Read/Write Web?

Since the dawn of computing there have been essentially four operations that the programmer needs to consider - create, read, update, and delete (CRUD). It's the one thing I think is missing from Ted's summary - the read/write web.

As an example of a Web 2.0 success, what makes Flickr isn't uploading images, but that you can tag, comment, annotate, and describe them. The ability to write data about the photo is a very important aspect of enabling that "community" feel.

Indeed the Office 2.0 race is more about write than any of the other item on Ted's list. What's an MS Word competitor that's rich, and elegant, and cross-platform, and Internet-enabled if I can't author a document? Don't underestimate the power of "write", which in most cases is the hardest feature to develop.

To this end, if you look at the WPF examples in your post, they are all about reading data. A New Yorks Times *Reader*. A Sudoku game - clicking a square hardly qualifies as write in my book. Microsoft's very own MAX photo viewer, to which I'll simply call upon my previous statements about Flickr.

Some might suggest that read/write is implied, but I don't think it should be. Without it, we'd all have these amazing Internet-enabled, desktop applications to dynamically collaborate on information, while some poor fellow is chained in a basement copying/pasting raw data into Excel spreadsheets...

Posted by: parkerkrhoyt   Posted on: 10/16/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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