The Web is Dead!

I came across two interesting articles that try to convince you that the Web is dead and instead it will be the Internet that will take over. The first article:

The Web is Dead; Long Live the Internet

talks about how we have more focused small platforms on which we run specific applications like Twitter, Facebook and RSS Readers helping us keep abreast with the news around us. It shows that the long story of HTML pages that are crawled by search engines is now a dead story. True in fact, because when you look around for smart applications that bring you the latest information real-time to your desks, they don’t it by parsing and crawling HTML pages, but rather by applying intelligent algorithms to twitter, facebook and RSS feeds; SILOs of information that are rich in their own way.

The second article:

Do we Still Need Websites

talks about how we don’t need websites anymore and how brands are promoted using Twitter and Facebook as client applications. Interesting to see the article quoting solid examples to support the idea. I wonder how many times have I really visited a pure HTML website for some information. More often, we get the information in form of Google Snippets or other short-hand forms. Nevertheless, I do feel we would still need websites that promote brands that look aesthetic on HTML pages that are beautifully designed. Well, there are plenty of beautiful HTML5 designed websites on the web.

But while I read these two articles, one point that strikes me is that I read all this on a HTML page , and on the WEB!

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