A Post-App World

Mobile apps. "must die" and be replaced by ... something more like web-pages?

It's an interesting idea. The problem with apps. is the "download, install and manage" part of things. As the number of apps. proliferates it becomes unmanageable.

What you want is the functionality of the app. popping up where it's appropriate (and wanted). In a sense, I guess the apps will have to be attached to things in your locality rather than a traditional web-address. Places like "in front of me" or "belonging to the institution I just entered", "by my left hand" etc. 

Dare Obasanjo's analysis of the Facebook redesign is well worth a read.

Tim O'Reilly compares iPhone vs. Blackberry to Excel vs. Lotus 123

To-ing and fro-ing about whether Facebook / Microsoft are a threat to Google.

Some good comments, especially this one : everyone thinks the MS deal is about getting Facebook customers to use MS search technology.

But what if it's the other way round? Bringing FB technology to MS customers? For example, what about a deeper integration of Facebook into Internet Explorer? Or Windows? That point about Facebook needing no UI "metaphor" is telling. Why shouldn't a computer desktop be organized by a Facebook (or similar) social-network metaphor?