phpBB4 vs cloud?
December 21, 2009
It is still at its brainstorming stage, but I do expect a lot from phpBB4 and so I decided to spend time with it. Here is the link to the discussion board
http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=75
I think most softwares today are in concrete form and I am a fan of abstraction. I like to make software cloud-based. The Internet is a cloud, a globally interconnected network. I can literally predict that this is the only way software will be written in the future.
Look at Google Wave, an amazing application which embeds all the top Internet features into one: E-mail, IM, game, community, wiki and ect. The only obstacle is hardware. Most American users are probably still using DSL, or those cheap Cable services. They are not fast enough to support cloud computing like Chrome OS and definitely not ready for Google Wave either.
My suggestion is to make phpBB4 an extension or an application based on Google Wave. Use the existing resources to enrich phpBB4. However, I think the developers hate this idea and they definitely do not want to re-invent forum's paradigm.
I can hardly accept their bigot minds and I cannot see the future of any forum software at the moment. I told them forum is an obsolete and they probably thought I was referring to social network. No, not exactly. In fact, social network was not a new thing at all. We had a fixed definition of forum - this killed forum.
In my mind, we need to make every user an object, a cloud. This is the new definition of a forum - everything is a cloud. This is very abstract and indeed I like to make things abstract so that I can get the best innovations out of the box.
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