Web trends for 2007
The well-known Read/Write Web website released their predictions for the web trends to follow in 2007. Full article here.
I made a concise summary hereafter, grouping some related categories and excluding some very niche products (like online real estate):
- Structure: Semantic Web, RSS, Structured Data, Microformats, Widgets
- Enterprises: Enterprise web-based applications
- Web applications: Rich Internet Applications, Web desktop, Web office applications
- Publicity: evolution of the online ad model
- Search: Web search evolution, search verticals, semantic web integration
- Browsers evolution (aka war)
- Multimedia: VoIP, Internet TV, P2P, Virtual “spaces”
- Social networks, communities
- Internationalization - China, broadband expansion
- Mobile web - applications, integration with RSS, Social networks, ads
