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Gen4
(December 11, 2001) We
have been thinking intensely about the emergence of the next generation of the
internet. You might remember the blank stares on the faces of your peers as you
talked about the web and html in 1995, 1996 and 1997. Today, five years later,
it's pretty matter of fact.
We face different problems today. Anyone who
reads this column is buried in email and justifiably terrified to open an
attachment. The web, in its current form, gives you less of what you need and
more of what you don't. The techno-weenies are busily working on stuff that's
hard to understand again. It's beginning to become clear that we are on the
verge of a new breakthrough. We're calling it Gen4 computing:
- Gen 1 = Mainframe and terminals
- Gen 2 = Client Server
- Gen 3 = html (thin clients)
- Gen 4 = an XMLish wave at the desktop. The OS becomes a
database
Our thinking is being shaped by the incredible
explosion of Weblogs and the advent of real utility in XML. Like
early web pages, blogs/weblogs are personality centric demonstrations of a new
wave of technology. They have a lot of the same political and cultural issues.
They are infinitely more powerful as work tools, however, because of the
inherent design for active and passive collaboration.
Don't misunderstand. We're definitely not saying
that the efforts associated with the HRXML boondoggle are ever going to amount
to anything. We have every bit as much confidence in industry committees as they
deserve. Rather, we're beginning to see the glimmers of the next range of
things.
Personic, in an extraordinary move, pulled itself
back from the market in 2001 and reinvented itself as a pure Web Services play
using Microsoft's "dot net" initiative. This move has powerful
consequences at a variety of levels in the industry. It signals the advent of
"wrapping free" web publishing. It ushers in an era of expanded
customer choice. It creates the possibility that Applicant Tracking Systems
might actually start to produce real recruiting results.
The applications that have really worked on
the internet are tools that allow people to do something for themselves,
often through peer-to-peer communication, networking and transactions:
e-mail, file sharing programmes like Napster, bulletin boards, mass open
auctions. Destination websites are generally still passive experiences,
which allow people to search for and download content. The successful
internet sites of the near future will be participation sites that provoke
people and empower them with tools to do something with the material, often
in collaboration with others.
From "The
Internet's Way Forward" By Charles Leadbeater on
FT.com
In our Buyer's Survey, we were disturbed to
discover that, after 20 years, only 60 percent of Fortune 2000 companies use
Applicant Tracking Systems and fully 1/4 of them are custom built by the inhouse
team. It's clear that the market is not offering the sorts of utility that
customers need. We expect the near-term introduction of Gen4 computing wil
introduce a broader array of collaborative services and real value for
Recruiters and Hiring Managers.
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