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We often are asked about the risk of doing something new. However, what is the risk of NOT doing something new? Especially in a world filled with creativity and competition.

The 2009 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report evaluates the maturity of 1,650 technologies and trends in 79 technology, topic and industry areas. New Hype Cycles this year include cloud computing, data center power and cooling technologies, and mobile device technologies. Here are my Web 1.0 reflections and Web 2.0 prognostications based on this report…

A few weeks back, I shared an observation from one of AOL’s former CTO’s that the US Constitution was the best architecture document in history (my apologies to my colleagues from other countries). As we approach US Independence Day, I thought it would be appropriate to begin a series that presented the Architecture Constitution ten years ago and how I am still applying these key concepts five software generations later.

In 2000, AOL’s Chief Technology Officer held an offsite for all of the Chief Architects from AOL, Netscape, CompuServe, ICQ and MapQuest (this was before the closure of the merger with Time Warner. After he posed a question to all of us, “What do you think was the best architecture document in history?”…

In 1999, the Four Horsemen of the Internet were positioned to transform our economy through Creative Destruction. It do not happen (instead the Internet integrated with how we work). The same thing is about to happen in Web 2.0