The document summarizes key trends in web technology presented by Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb, including: 1) Web sites are becoming web services and pages are less central, with data and APIs driving most activity. This moves the web towards being more intelligent. 2) Semantic web technologies aim to make data on the web more structured and machine-readable to enable computers to better analyze and understand information. 3) Open data, social graphs, and mobile web applications are expanding the amount of available data and the ways users can access and share information across different platforms and devices. 4) Recommendation engines are becoming more personalized by combining individual, social, and item-based approaches to

1. What’s Next on the Web? Web Technology Trends for 2009 and Beyond Presented by: Richard MacManus, Founder & Editor, ReadWriteWeb