Interactive Nature of Browser Colors Past and Future

[mandy]

Fifteen years after the birth of the Web browser, development of the software is increasingly focused on provoking users to define their own ways of consuming information online.

When Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first Web client, or browser editor, in 1990, his aim was to build a creative tool that would allow people using the nascent system to organize information and present it to others in a fun, dynamic way.

Fifteen years into the project, he and other experts closely involved with shaping the browser's legacy agree that fostering greater levels of user interaction remains their ultimate goal.

full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1903737,00.asp

[regic]

The W3C head said that he's encouraged by the new wave of interest in self-publishing technologies such as blogs, RSS feeds and wikis, as those interactive Web applications are closer to what he'd originally imagined, versus a network of tightly-controlled browsers and sites largely owned by businesses.

Businesses, or business influences, will become the dominant and most influential force in blogs too.  Its already happening.