Web2Wave or the futur of the web?

I’ve just discovered and tested a new web application which seems for me to be the future of the web.This web application is named Web2Wave (www.Web2Wave.com) and freely accessible. The functionnalities of Web2Wave are really simple, usefull, ergonomic, intuitive and so powerfull.

I will explain to you quickly the principle of W2W, but I think that the best way for you is to try it by yourself.Just type www.web2wave.com, try the demo if you want but you will have better to directly create your own account.Web2Wave does not need to download anything, it’s what I call a light client with AJAX interfaces and web2.0 (javascript, css and XHTML) technologies for the MMI :

1. On the Welcome page, you have an explanation of the need to register and some few explications in french and in english. The list of bookmarks is very welcomed if you use social bookmarking as me. You have at the top of the page a very nice “apple dock” menu with very realistic icons for login and few other options. The first page is not the most important, just needed to login.



2. For creating an account, you just have to fill your name and email in the field.



3. The first tab is an help tab which provides you sme tips with a short video in order to adopt the W2W functionnalities and wording : A “surflet” is a small browser window created when you click on the lefter icon of the apple dock menu. A surflet can be renamed, saved, resized and filled with an url.

 

4. The second tab is the “3D Flow”!!! An amazing three-dimensional coverflow graphical user interface, a very powerfull tool, but I will talk about it later for a better understanding.
5. Then you have many tabs as you want, you create it and renamed it in accordance with the future content you will add inside. For testing, I have created a “web2.0″ tab where I have added 5 surflets with my favorite web2.0 blogs inside and another one with some personal website that I consult every day.

I arrange the surflet as I want, by renaming, resizing and repositionning them in order to have a kind of dashbord of my bookmarks.When I want to view the content of a surflet, I just have to click on the expand button and the surflet is sized in full page as like as I’ve opened it in a single web browser page.



6. When I will have created my own web browsing environment, I think that I will have more than thirty different surflet. In this way, despite the renaming functionnalities of the webview and surflet, I can imagine that I will have some difficulties to find a surflet between all the different tab. That’s where the famous second tab, the 3D flow is so powerfull!
7. When you click on the second tab, all the content of your surflets are screen shoted on the fly and placed in an Apple Dock like cover flow. It’s very ergonomic and design and very usefull to find the surflet you where searching by scrolling and double clicking on it.

In my mind, Web2Wave is the future of the of the web application for many reasons:

• Firstly, because it offers to the user a very simple and free service that fulfill it’s web browsing needs.
• Secondly, because it uses all the new technologies that offer the same functionnalities of the OS windows, the ergonomy and the design of the Mac OS one and because it is a light client, it does not need any installation.
• And finally because it is innovative, and has really understood the interest of all the web2.0 technologies for inventing the future of the web… the web3.0????

Despite the Web2Wave web site (www.web2wave.com) is still actually under development and may content some bug (you can referred them to the web master for future improvment) it presents a very accomplished design inspired by MacOs X.

I cannot predict the future of this service, but I can see it in the Google labs as well.Congratulation to the one’s who have had the ideas.Good surf in your webview and surflet.

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