Future of Web Applications postmortem
FOWA is now over and it has been a great conference. On the way back in the plane I got to thinking that almost all the new web applications work a lot like open source projects. In the way that they are first and foremost open, encourage external contributions (using API´s), encourages the users to drive the development of new functionality, and are actively encouraging feedback from their users in an open way where users can help other users solve problems.