Whatever happened to transitional web apps ? they turned into something else

On March 15th, 2009 Henriette Weber wrote:

Well they transided =) - Anyway after being at the Tangible Interactions in Urban Spaces panel at SXSW, I ran all the way back to my hotel room to note this thing down.
So basically, Transitional web apps was the web applications that made web 2.0 reach out and still does. Web apps such as twitter, jaiku, peripheral devices such as nabaztags and photoframes, things that can run in their own environment (be it mobile or any other platform) but still connected to the web. So the web has turned from social computing and now it's all about social objects - objects that we are social around with other people.

After social objects the panel predicted that then we would get social environments, build out of architecture and open source online as well as offline. So this would mean that you could stylesheet buildings and spaces IRL! - nice. another pointer was that instead of user generated content, we would actually see user generated context, where, if we are lucky enough everything is designed to be participated in and hacked. So instead of social media we would have fluid media. I think that sound pretty funky - how about you ?

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