The Next Internet Infrastructure
I’ll be participating and chairing a workshop at Web 2.0 called:
The Next Internet Infrastructure
Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics, Chad Dickerson, Yahoo!, Jonathan Hare, Consilient, Jeff Barr Amazon
Date: Tuesday, November 07
Time: 8:30am - 9:45am
Location: Twin PeaksNow that social networking and video submission sites are proving to be big draws, what other ‘infrastructure’ will be needed to drive ‘the next generation Internet?’ Can we imagine a future where tags, ID systems and event databases are shared by all - and not owned by a single vendor? How ’bout pooling resources to create exciting new kinds of user interface controls or provide ubiquitous storage or grid computational power to all?
This will be the thrid year in a row I’ve done one of these ‘workshops’ - usually centered around the notion of ‘open standards’ or ‘open source infrastructure’.
Each year we get closer and closer to making this dream - a reality. This time next year we could all be sitting here with shared digital lifestyle aggregation accounts - connecting together all our disparate profile data, content and social relationships across a wide range of different vendors, systems and business models.
Once you can really count on open source infrastructure - entirely new kingdoms and operating systems can be born from a virtual womb of possibilities. By thinking of all this stuff as web services, we can glue together publishing systems with dashboards and content channels, aggregating data from anywhere - and enabling our end-users to create their own personalized portals. Across multiple vendors.
Think Vox is the end-all be all, or NetVibes? How ’bout Google’s upcoming Web OS or your favorite Music site or Financial services package? Shouldn’t one be able to mix and match their favorite services, based upon a Hubbed personality - which itself is made up of multiple persona. And to move or connect their data from any one service or system into another one?
This is the world that’s possible with our next generation Internet.
This year we’ll have:
Jonathan Hare (of Consilient) will be talking about how an interchange grid could revoutionize enterprise communication.
Chad Dickerson (who is the guy who did the recent Yahoo Hack Day) will hopefully tell us when MyYahoo’s APIs will be available (in both directions)
And Jeff Barr will elucidate us as to why Amazon did S3 and EC2.
And me. I’ll bring up OpenID2, XFN/hCard, FOAF, InfoCards, BB Auth, Media RSS, efforts by Mary Hodder to get aggregator vendors to work together, Facebook’s APIs and efforts to get MySpace to open up.
To me - this is what its all about. Two small software developers and two huge behemoths all agreeing on the notion of shared and open assets, resources and data - as a good thing. The trick is to get us all compatible with each other. But the first batle is to open up - at all. Yahoo and Amazon have been leading the way - and I’m hoping to get AOL there as well.
Web 2.0 sounds like a great time to announce more open APIs and services from AOL - “what do you say - Tina, Jim, Marcien?”
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