http://blog.steveanderson.com/2008/02/20/web-20/ Increasing agency productivity and profits with technology. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://blog.steveanderson.com/2008/02/20/web-20/#comment-417 swiftrate Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:19:38 +0000 http://blog.steveanderson.com/2008/02/20/web-20/#comment-417 I think too many people focus on the front-end media aspect of WEB2.0. While it may be true there is more media out there including articles, videos, etc... I think when you get down to it Web2.0 means "collaboration". The ability to comment on this blog being one of them. The most important aspect of web2.0, by far, is our websites and webapps communicating with each other (mash-ups). For instance wouldnt it be nice for all Agency Management systems to be able to communicate with our carriers services (billing, inquiry, rating)??? Whats standing in the way ? For the most part our vendors dont understand open collaboration opting instead to profit from these transactions... Profit Greatly! We all want "realtime" not because it is a buzz word but because it would be a practical solution in our every day lives. I hope the vendors see this and either reduce their ridiculous "per transaction" charges or do away with them all together. Then more carriers will get on board and we can all look forward to WEB3.0 =) I think too many people focus on the front-end media aspect of WEB2.0. While it may be true there is more media out there including articles, videos, etc… I think when you get down to it Web2.0 means “collaboration”. The ability to comment on this blog being one of them. The most important aspect of web2.0, by far, is our websites and webapps communicating with each other (mash-ups). For instance wouldnt it be nice for all Agency Management systems to be able to communicate with our carriers services (billing, inquiry, rating)??? Whats standing in the way ? For the most part our vendors dont understand open collaboration opting instead to profit from these transactions… Profit Greatly! We all want “realtime” not because it is a buzz word but because it would be a practical solution in our every day lives. I hope the vendors see this and either reduce their ridiculous “per transaction” charges or do away with them all together. Then more carriers will get on board and we can all look forward to WEB3.0 =)

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