Facebook + Parakey: Social Operating System aka Web 4.0

Ive been playing around with Facebook for inspiration over the last few weeks and i have to say that their deep integration with 3rd party apps thru their much publicized Facebook Developer Platform is producing extremely interesting results.

The Facebook Platform reminds me alittle of  an early Windows with people calling it “the social operating system” on which you can develop your Web Apps.

Facebook confirmed their intent to venture into the Web OS space (by their actions only) when they acquired a company called Parakey, a yet to be launched “Web Operating System” created by the co-founders of Firefox.

Parakey is a platform for building applications that merge the best of the desktop and the Web. Like desktop applications, these applications work offline, offer more privacy than pure websites, run quickly, and integrate with your computer and its devices. But like Web applications, they are also more creative, visually alluring, accessible from anywhere and potentially accessible by anyone. In short, Parakey apps are designed to be both useful and social, a combination that is too rare today.

Facebook has shown great strategic insight by acquiring them and it remains to be seen how well they leverage their new child.

Did i hear someone whisper Web 4.0 ?

~ by koc1978 on July 26, 2007.