In "SOA + RIA + OSS = Web 2.0" (stumbled upon it in delicious), Adam Michelson makes some interesting observations on what the next Net apps may look like once the idea of Web2.0 matures and goes beyond it's current buzzword phase.
Web2.0 is today's lip candy, but a lot of people who use this term to refer to its visual or interactive side of the Web2.0 architecture. We see a parallel in the use of the term "AJAX" that most people use to refer to what is usually is simply a Javascript enhanced frontend.
Those who understand the potential of what Web2.0 can bring know that the real power comes from the marriage of the thick client capabilities of the frontend and a standards-based seamless access to data through service oriented architectures (SOA). The result will be the blurring between whether the software we are using is a desktop or web-based app.
There are links in Michelson's article to some interesting developments in OS frameworks that combine RIA and SOA for various platforms, notably the Cairngorm framework for Adobe's Flex.
I think development in this area (RIA + SOA) will be the most interesting and exciting in this whole Web2.0 phenomenon.
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