Content moves beyond websites. Interaction is no longer just straight HTML. Users control how data is categorized and manipulated. RSS is used as an Interface. These are the characteristics of the current trend in the Web development. What I am excited about is, with the high popularity of RSS, the increasing availability of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and the good applications of Folksonomies and Social Networking, it is possible to create useful web applications very fast and relatively inexpensively.

Example 1: Marumushi Newsmap. “It reads the headlines from Google News and displays topics to explore patterns in how stories are emphasized in the media.”

Example 2: Andale: Powerful Solutions for Online Sellers. “It produces reports of the hottest selling products on eBay, using eBay’s API to extract the data, to help sellers identify and price their products.”

Example 3: Flickr Related Tag Browser. “It takes user-inputted tag and generates an alternative interface to browsing pictures on Flickr.”

These are what I get after I read this article: Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype, by Jared M. Spool, on User Interface 10 Conference, October 10-13, 2005, Cambridge, MA, US.