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An article over at news.com:

"From Web page to Web platform
The advent of the Web 10 years ago opened up vast banks of information to anyone with an Internet connection. Now, clever programming tricks that use data from public Web sites are letting developers mix up that information to suit consumers' particular needs."

Full article at news.com.

Most people still don't understand that the web is the moral equivalent of the mainframe model from ages ago. The webbrowser has replaced the dumb terminal, the webserver the mainframe computer.

To create this new kind of true shared computing environment all one needs is a software platform like MOBIE where, in addition to many other benefits, a website becomes a computing resource, not just an information resource.