Building Industries on the Web

1. A space to build
2. Fragmentation vs. evolution
3. Future developments

The Web

A space

• Faster
• Without constraint
• Helped by machines

A Universal space

• Universal in access
• Containing any type of document
• All levels of quality
• Universal in scale

Global Scale

• Corporate home page
• Advertizing
• Public material
• Educational material
• Economy of scale

Corporate Scale

• Limited access
• Increased trust
• Openness
• Internal communications
• Shared knowledge base

Group scale

• Greater trust
• Co-authoring of group documents
• Simple HTML editing!
• Working in place
• Ideal: Self-managing team

Personal scale

• Agendas, Calendars
• Address books
• Meeting notes
• Bookmark lists
• Personal Home page

Things to think about

• Stating the status of documents
• Quality of links
• The proprietory trap

The future

• Fragmentation or Evolution?
• New developments

The W3 Consortium

• A neutral body
• 150+ member companies
• Common specifications
• Hold the infrastructure together
• Discuss directions for evolution
• http://www.w3.org/

Technical things to come

• PICS Labels tell quality
• Security and Payment
• Faster protocols
• More data types
• Informaion ownership. privacy issues

Intercreativity

• Interactivity is not filling in forms
• Building things together over the Net
• Co-presence
• Group editing
• 3 dimensions
• Application-specific objects
• Logical argument

Web of trust

• Input who you trust
• + Signed machine readable statements
• A machine can work with that
• Enables: Commerce, Groupwork, Agents

Machines start to help

• Machine-readable documents
  • Business, Legal, Logical
• Web of trust
• Agent programs act on your behalf

Closing thoughts

• The web is what you make it
• Pace of change
• Some things will not change

Thank you for your attention

http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Talks/9609Industry