Flowchart.com is still a R&D project for us, we’re still not running it as a full scale business, something we expect to do sometime by the end of the year.
Jeff writes (Via Flowchart.com blog):
Many people have sent email asking why we’re calling Flowchart.com a “web 3.0″ Software service?
The evolution of the web has been happening in stages, as technologies mature, so are the offerings people create. When we first conceptualized online flowchart system we planned to build a eco-system along with it. An eco-system that was product centric. There wasn’t any to be found.
Web 2.0 buzz was taking shape then (2006) What we saw was people building excellent technologies that have API’s to mash up with other technologies, but not really enhancing their application features, it was still like the old Boxed software days where users request are queued and when/if the developer liked or found the time to add it, they did. We needed to go a step above.
Flowchart.com has a built in Marketplace where designers/developers can use the API and build tools, scripts, objects which they can either sell to other users or share it for free. This produce specific eco-system where users can enhance the application and can profit from it is our reason to call ourselves Web 3.0 software service. Irving Wladawsky-Berger Blog post has a great phrase by Nigel Coats that suits Web 3.0 very well and it is how Flowchart.com is built - framework in which events happen
We’ve come a long way with Flowchart.com, been working on it for over two years now, have massive user-base, and as we hear from major companies, the product is gaining ground, users all over are realizing flowcharting can offer much more than what traditional software packages can.
If you have not yet played with Flowchart.com, maybe today is the day to take the software to a test drive? Do let us know what you think!
Have a great day,
Sahar
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This is one of my favorite projects of yours Sahar. I haven’t logged-in in a while, but am always impressed when I do. EXCELLENT WORK.
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Thanks Jamie! This is Jeff’s baby, he puts lots of work in this, large development team as well.
Thanks for the support!
Sahar
Hi Sahar,
wow…flowchart and your projects are hitting off well…congrats! I am glad to see a well known domainer branch away from the ppc parking and actually create something from scratch… Your making the news vs big time domainers… Cant wait to see your spyware.com sell for the millions like property.com or spyware.com gets developed and its a cash cow machine like your future projects.
One thing I getting more and more frustrated on it this web 2.0 or web 3.0 chatter… Brings an ugly taste to my mouth and its really not a true term of the internet for future use…
I would rather see “social graph, or social graphs) and we get rid of this web number… Google and Facebook are supporting this term and in fact facebook owns socialgraph.com or socialgraphs.com(forgot when I did the research into this).
Just something to ponder and feel free to do some research into this…would love to hear your thoughts on this vs web 3.0…
cheers,
jeff
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Hi Jeff, and thanks for the kind words!
About “Web 3.0″, we just happen to like the term long before other have used it, for what we are using it. I guess it is a matter of taste.
Cheers
Sahar
“One thing I getting more and more frustrated on it this web 2.0 or web 3.0 chatter… Brings an ugly taste to my mouth and its really not a true term of the internet for future use…”
Jeff, It may not be a popular “marketing” term now, but infact giving a version number does reflect the evolution of the internet software interactivity. The process of combining different API’s to create a user product is an evolution from initial closed backends websites of the 90s and 00’s. Mashups do have a limitation that you are reliant upon 3rd party API for your site success. Google gets away with giving free API access to certain products as they know most of the time the user is going to slap adsense on their Mashup sites, so Google profits. But how do other sites profit if you don’t have Google’s economies of scale?
Web 1.0 was a revolution, rest is evolution. 3.0 should make web application development more dynamic and profitable for each user. Each application needs to become like a MMORPG where a instant marketplace exist within the eco system of the application.
“I would rather see “social graph, or social graphs) and we get rid of this web number… Google and Facebook are supporting this term and in fact facebook owns socialgraph.com or socialgraphs.com(forgot when I did the research into this).”
This is a new branding approach, IMO, won’t take off. (The .com vs. rest of the gtld debate will be helpful notation here) Facebook/Myspace etc are nothing more than glorified BBS with pictures. Remeber those?
JeffB
Hey JeffB,
“glorified BBS with pictures. Remeber those?”
Hey, watch it now. A good part of my business model depends on my web bulletin Board Software. Hee Hee.
And my outfit, Monster Highway, started life as a dial up Gap Bulletin Board running Waffle as a “door” for an email Gateway. Those two computers are still here in storage. I’m gonna display them prominently in my corporate headquarters some day.
Keep Smiling!