Innovation in assembly refers to innovation right at the architectural or design level of applications and/or hardware development. Assembling web 2.0 applications to be future proof, support currently local machine running programs or applications would ensure the shift to web 2.0 to be embraced by increasing number of people everyday. Web 2.0 platforms provide an easy and intuitive way to utilize features therefore enabling the change to be accepted from using local resources to online web based resources. This ensures reduction in costs, time and implementation labour.
Some web 2.0 applications in use today are cloud services, remote data warehousing, VPN, and document storage applications most or all of which use the web 2.0 platform. Dropbox would be the most widely accepted application by university students in my experience at QUT. They have built the application off a simple interface, made it cross compatible across most devices (IOS, Windows OS, Windows Phone and Android). Ubuntu has its own version of online storage providing universal access to files similar to dropbox in their version of ubuntu one. I had a chance of implementing that on both my laptop running ubuntu and also on my smartphone on Android.
These services offer secure access, reliable storage and easy to use interface for their applications. Online storage solutions are becoming more popular across all fields (education, consumer and business alike) and according to me would be the best example of innovation in assembly using a web 2.0 platform. Facebook, twitter, and Google plus integrate online storage blogging and chat applications with one unified access credentials. What would be next in this wonder of an application?
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