Scott Fegette, Senior Product Manager for Dreamweaver at Adobe, began by telling Abby Johnson that now’s an exciting – but volatile – time.  He believes the industry’s in a sort of 1.0 stage right now, with the best user interface and input methods undecided, even as the landscape is “exploding exponentially.”

Devin Fernandez, Group Product Manager of the Web Segment at Adobe, then added that there’s a fragmentation of browsers and operating systems, not just mobile devices.  And he thinks we can’t arrive at a 2.0 stage of development until everyone’s established design patterns and best practices.

Questions related to limited network access, repurposing content, and the mobile Web versus native applications are posing challenges to people in the industry, as well.

On the bright side, Fegette indicated that HTML5 is a great way to target a variety of devices at a broad level.  He also believes mobile Web applications will reach the same quality as native apps in time.

That should be encouraging news for businesspeople who are looking for fresh ways to promote their sites and reach consumers who are on the move.

In fact, it’s probably the friendliest local search engine we’ve seen. Simply answer “What are you looking for?” and “Where are you looking for it?” then click “Search.” That’s as intuitive as it gets!

But Baillie’s not resting on his laurels. In an interview with WebProNews at Search Engine Strategies, he delivers kind words for Ask.com‘s new AskCity service, and chats a bit on the mobile web market.

“From an industry perspective the hardest part of being on to mobile devices is getting on to what’s called the ‘deck’ or the initial list of options you have on a carrier. A lot of carriers… have walled in their experience. The first hurdle is getting on to the ‘deck’… after that it’s only limited to what the devices can do.”

As most web savvy businessmen, Baillie knows his SEO, sharing his take on filters versus penalties and even musing on Google’s profit from spam blogs. Why should Google battle scraper sites when they share revenue from ads placed there with AdWords?

“It makes money in the short term, but in the long term it presents a bad user experience. I think that it IS in Google’s interest to get rid of these. Even though the short term may be a hit…”