In a column in Canada Free Press, writer Joshua Hill looks at the recent top 10 technologies list that Gartner Group released to predict the main interesting technologies from the next four years. Not too surprisingly, Web and Enterprise 2.0 technologies made that list -- including social networks, cloud computing, Web mashups, and the technologies generally considered "Web 3.0" such as contextual computing and semantics.
In the post, Hill offers brief explanations of the differences among these terms. And indeed, most have been the subject of press releases lately.
I find it interesting that the concept of cloud computing seems to be slowly stealing the spotlight formerly held by SaaS. The concepts are certainly related. In a post last week on Intelligent Enterprise, Mark Madsen astutely concluded that "in the cloud" seems to be becoming the new "as a service," and that companies are throwing out the -aaS acronym for -itC.
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