The Importance of Tools
June 4th, 2008
When you boil down the Web2.0 hype, it’s all about tools and the democratisation of tool making.
I don’t know where this idea I have came from (probably Richard Millwood or Sam Deane) that if a tool can be written in itself, then in geek terms, it’s very, very, very cool. It certainly hurts when I think about it too hard.
Here’s a Flex Builder written in Flex… which as it happens, doesn’t work (for me) but hey, that’s a minor detail given the cool factor.
It is cool, when you think about it, that we are entering an era where real people (not just programmers) can create tools for people rather than just create content… empowerment instead of publication/consumption?