The internet as operation system

The Internet as an operationg systeem

Inspired by
Tim O'Reilly
And
Werner Vogels talk at next web conference
(Look them up on the web!)

Operation system?
Comparing the Internet with OsX / Windows.
Operation system:
Manages the systems resources
Helps applications to focus on the user

Before good os
Writing software also demanded that you wrote software to:
Manage how to store information
Draw a point on a certain type of screen
.. etc

Enter the age of API
Applications can use Application Programmable Interfaces
Focus on what you want, not how the system does it
Newer devices just have to support the api's

Example
Draw a button at a certain location.

Compared with the web
People host their own websites
Host own databases
Create their own buttons, graphic controls

OS for the web(1)
What should it do?
Search
Media access
Communication
Location
Social graph
Payment
Advertisement
Activity streams

OS for the web (2)
Image & speech recognition
Storing data
Graphical user interfaces
Authentication (knowing who your user is)
Community management
Time/ Calendar

Communication
Email
sendgrid.com
SMS messages
mollie.nl
twillio.com
send/receive sms/ voice messages
Twitter/ facebook messages
Urban airship (push to mobile)

Location
Browsers already know where the user is.
Simplegeo
Get information about a location
Store information about a location
Get messages from other platforms.
Foursquare (and others)

User authentication
Lots of services on the web already know your users (google, hyves, facebook, twitter, Windows Live)
Use them for authentication

Social graph
Facebook
Hyves
Twitter
LinkedIn (not open)

Community management
Echo nest (aboutecho.com)

Storing data
Amazon RDS
MongoHQ.com
Cloudant.com
For storing files: Amazon s3

Payment
Amazon FPS
Chargify
Mollie.nl

Media access
Zencoder: translate to appropriate data format
Animoto: Create fancy slideshows from your pictures

Media access
Image recognition (iqengines.com)iq

Running your website
Heroku.com (currently only newwave host)
+ Stuff that helps programmers
Reporting errors
getexceptional
Caching parts of your website
Storing feature requests

Running(2)
Content management:
Drupalgardens.com

The catch
Using services cost money...
Why is it worth it??

The catch(2)
Building stuff cost money
Maintenance cost money
You need to maintain knowledge about what you created

Pro's
You don't have to install servers
You don't need to know how a certain problem really works

Graphical UI's
User interaction.
Lightweight frameworks:
JQuery
Prototype
Mootools
JQTouch for mobile

GUI(2)
Heavy weight frameworks:
Sproutcore
Cappucino
Google webtoolkit

Gui (3)
Graphs: Google charts

To conclude
Lots of services you can use on the web
Most of them free until you get big
Save money and time developing services
If you create something others can use, why not create a service?

The internet as operation system

by dongelen on Sep 22, 2010

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