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Why is Flowchart.com a Web 3.0 software service?

June 14th, 2008 | by JeffB |

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