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Widget – “mini web apps placed inside other web apps.”

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Web Ecosystem - a fancy term for mashups.

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The Fit Client - Hybrid Fat/Thin Client. RIA Desktop applications, browser-less rendering of applications.

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Mashup – Not a new term, but I’ve heard it a lot just in the first day. “Mashups of mashups of mashups” was also mentioned. Means “aggregate application”. Refer to pageflakes.com…

2 more sessions in day 1 to come…

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The Cloud – More web applications are leaning more towards enabling people to keep all kind of personal data accessible from the web… in other words, they’re sending it to the Cloud and not caring about where it’s located… as long as they can access it whenever, wherever they want on the web. This isn’t really a new idea, but it’s definitely becoming more popular.