The Future is Getting Closer.

Like Photoshop, but running from a browser?

The nice people over at Aviary are developing a suit of browser run replacements for the disgusting monopolies that the likes of Adobe, Microsoft and Apple have over the creative applications market.

Aviary is a suit of web based applications that will allow creative professionals, and those who just like to play, access to powerful image, music and video manipulating tools. In English? It's like Photoshop but it ain't by Adobe init. It's like the Google Word Processor, for images. I'm very excited by all this.

Why am I excited by this?

For me this is NOT Web 3.0 (fuck buzzwords), but it is a refreshing conceptual step away from that awful mental model of the web as taught to us by the powers that be back in the late 90's.

Let's reiterate:

The internet is NOT something that we "Go Onto".
The Net is a set of interlinking routes of data - connections (like in your brain)
The Net is everywhere, all around us, every minute of every day.
The Net is wireless.

Therefore:

We View the Net through the rendering tools we choose (be this a desktop computer - rendering a big HTML page, or through a mobile phone (just showing me my text email).

The Net is MORE powerful than my desktop machine; therefore it makes sense that the net hosts my number crunching image manipulation programs. Physical Geography is no longer an obstacle.

The Net is smarter than I am, so why don't I work openly to it, collaboratively - as there's always other like minded people plugged in else where in the grid.