Kim,
I was sitting in a meeting at Microsoft a few months ago when someone from Redmond used the BBC’s site to explain RSS to a bunch of other Microsoft people – that page is the world standard “What is RSS” page, you should be proud.
There’s a new platform of technologies from Microsoft which the BBC are involved with that’s my idea of “where things are going”. There’s a Windows Media video here: http://sessions.mix06.com/view.asp?pid=KYN001 There’s also a really slick AMG demo going to come out soon which really shows the power of the system.
The same could be said of some of the Flex based applications out there.
I think of it like this: -
I have a media centre PC here – it’s my main TV in the home too – but I still channel hop – I browse, clicking around, I don’t search even though I can – I only search on the web because I don’t have a choice at the moment.
Like I hate the way if you search on news.bbc.co.uk it searches bbc.co.uk first, then you have to get it to change modes to just search the news site (never used to) – search irritates me :-)
Phil.
On 18/7/06 11:41, "Kim Plowright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Crikey!
Hello Phil, and nice to see you decloak (as it is to hear from all of these new names, by the way)
Those are lovely explanations, thank you. (incidentally, i'm glad people like the news description of RSS - i helped 'de jargon' it a while ago!)
I'm interested in your final points though:
Rich Media and Content will become the display mechanism of choice.
Content (Text) will still be one of the most important aspects of “the web”, but it will be integrated very closely with audio and video.
Interlinking of content between sites will become more important. “Search” is not the future ;-)
Soooo. More A/V, more tightly integrated. Can you point to any sites that are beginning to work in this new way - are you referring to the youtube type stuff, or something more CDRom1996ish, where you have a more involved interface?
Also... why is search not the future? that's an interesting statement that must have some thinking behind it...
k
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