The State of the Internet Operating System. I’ve been talking for years about “the internet operating system“, but I realized I’ve never written an extended post to define what I think it is, where it is going, and the choices we face.
This is that missing post. Here you will see the underlying beliefs about the future that are guiding my publishing program as well as the rationale behind conferences I organize like the Web 2.0 Summit and Web 2.0 Expo, the Where 2.0 Conference, and even the Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo. Ask yourself for a moment, what is the operating system of a Google or Bing search? What is the operating system of a mobile phone call? What is the operating system of maps and directions on your phone? On a standalone computer, operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux manage the machine’s resources, making it possible for applications to focus on the job they do for the user.
But wait. Your phone knows where you are. Keep following the plot. Where is the “operating system” in all this? It was. DHT. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DHT may refer to: Science and technology[edit] Dihydrotestosterone, a potent endogenous androgenic hormone, derived from testosteroneDirectly heated triode, a type of thermionic valve now used primarily in audio amplifiersDiscrete Hartley transform, a Fourier-related transform of discrete, periodic data similar to the discrete Fourier transformDistributed hash table, a type of distributed system that provides hash table–like functionality Other[edit] See also[edit]
Internet-Scale Bus; how we do apps and data in future? “… I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now!”
The older I get, the more excited I am by watching waves of innovation. OK I’m not a computer scientist; I’m a VC, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent to me that the world needs an internet scale bus. In much the same way as Tibco became huge on the basis of the “enterprise bus”, we need a new and bigger solution. Why do I think that? Because this stuff is going on: 1. Just take a look at the at the sheer variety of web and iPhone applications, now being followed by Android of course – project that forward to the iPad and beyond, and it becomes clear that we have an app bonanza. Consider Twitter – is this actually the closest and largest current version of an internet-scale bus that we’ve seen to date?
How on earth could this ever happen unless we have a tight/loose coupling of #products, #pricing, #persona, #situation, #offers, #analytics, #location etc etc….