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WEB 2.0 (Personal Broadcast Networks) is starting to get some traction.  Adam Bosworth (the CTO of BEA) is writing extensively about the Web Services Browser and Kevin Lynch (Sr. VP at Macromedia) has written a white paper on rich Flash applications that utilize Web Services (he calls them Rich Internet Applications).  Each takes a different approach to solving the same thing:  how to build new client (desktop PC) software that realizes the vision of Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?  It is a system that breaks with the old model of centralized Web sites and moves the power of the Web/Internet to the desktop.  It includes three structural elements:  1) a source of content, data, or functionality (a website, a Web service, a desktop PC peer), 2) an open system of transport (RSS, XML-RPC, SOAP, P2P, and too an extent IM), and 3) a rich client (desktop software).  Basically, Web 2.0 puts the power of the Internet in the hands of the desktop PC user where it belongs. 

[John Robb's Weblog]

John Robb expands on the Web services browser concept and clarifies it to some extent, but to me this seems like stuff that is already in use.  The first thing that comes to mind is the Smart Clients concept.  If that's it, aren't we already doing this?