Web Sites as DLLs

by Joshua Porter  |   August 17th, 2005  |  shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/182

Here’s a quick analogy: In Web 2.0, web sites are like DLLs.

Each web site provides a library of functions for manipulating data. The simpler ones (the vast majority) serve semantic markup in the form of RSS/Atom. The more complex ones serve semantic markup in the form of Rest or Soap.

Participants either write DLLs or write applications that use them. Some, but not many, do both.

Use those DLLs (web sites) that make your application better. Ignore those DLLs that don’t.

What combination of DLLs will become the killer application?

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1.  SurfGuard 11:07am, Wed 17th, 2005

Hmmm… DLLs are certainly a feasible analogy. There is, however, already a word for a “web DLL”: It’s called a “web service” (http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/). And being self-describing, last not least, a web service is much more an ActiveX control than a DLL.

2.  Candy Williams 1:07pm, Wed 17th, 2005

I was reading the web article “Web Design for all the Senses” by Dirk Knemeyer (1/12/2005). You, like me, found the article to be of interest. I work with a Multi-Sensory company called TriSenx: (Tri = 3 and SENX = Sensory Enhanced Net ‘Xperience). TriSenx realized that in 1999 that we perceive our world through 5 senses and TriSenx has brought 3 of the 5 senses to the forefront: “smell, taste and touch”. These modalities fuse together into a seamless perception of the world using peripheral device.

Surviving economic strain of 911, TriSenx has gained recognition for its untimely ingenuity (of a tangible reproducing product) by Frost & Sullivan for its Technology Innovation in its Novel Fragrance Releasing Computer Peripheral Device, the Revolutionary Scent Dome on May 25, 2005 (http://www.trisenx.com/press/05_TriSenx_Receives_Prestigious_Award.pdf ), following the Noble Peace Prize for 2004 that was awarded in the category of “Olfactory Senses”. (http://www.rednova.com/news/display?id=90896 ).

We have the maneuvering abilities and vital access to digital interactivity across the globe. Combined, these devices render various applications such as Education, Home / Hotel Fragrancing, Medical Toxicology, Aromacology, Scent-Enabled Web Sites, Video / On-line Gaming, Movies, Animation Presentation, Advertisement, Environmental Control and or any Digital Media.

Trisenx has continued to strive toward our goals of digitally embarking on new innovative ways to enhance, capture and hold the attention of 21st century mankind, thus widening the bandwidth of perception.

3.  bill h-d 12:56pm, Thu 18th, 2005

Wow, that’s some impressively disguised spam…

4.  tompatros 7:33pm, Thu 18th, 2005

I do like the idea of “all content as feed”. Perhaps “websites of the future” will serve one of three functions (at any given moment):

1. content provider (feed out – ala the Bokardo feed in my Firefox toolbar)

2. content consumer / aggregator (feed in – ala portal dashboard)

3. content transformer (“website as API” – the Amazons, Googles, and Flickrs of the world that convert RSS(x) into RSS(y), creating new context for content )

Indeed, huge generalizations, but content is the currency of the web.