Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Tim O'Reilly Points Toward Next 'Killer App'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-can-it-make-coffee dept.

santos_douglas writes "Extreme Tech has this article in which Tim O'Reilly, the man behind every geeks favorite tech manuals, points toward four major leading indicators that will predict the next likely 'killer app' to emerge from the hacker community. They are: (1) Amazon.com web services (2) BARWN (3) Hardware hackers and (4) online gaming communities."

9 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hrmmm by gbjbaanb · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe because beowulf clusters are rubbish compared to big web-distributed computing projects.

    Plans to /. to world.... its a 'killer app', but not in the sense that most people understand it ;-)

  2. It's right there in my email by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "next major breakthrough", it's in about a 1/3 of the emails I receive every day! There must be lots of breakthroughts and killer apps out there, after all email doesn't lie. In fact, right now the wife's up to double d, using some of that money from dead nigerian presidents, we're on vacation on that free offer to barbadoes, and don't even ask what's down my pants these days!

    No, there is only one killer app everyone really wants and needs. It's the killer app that kills spam...

  3. What do.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "(1) Amazon.com web services (2) BARWN (3) Hardware hackers and (4) online gaming communities." add up to?

    A wireless internet virtual reality gaming chair in which everything, including the chair part, is patented up the wazoo.

  4. We'll see them coming by News+for+nerds · · Score: 5, Funny

    O'Reilly - Amazon.com Web Services Nutshell
    O'Reilly - Essential BARWN
    O'Reilly - Hardware Hackers Pocket Reference
    O'Reilly - Online Gaming The Definitive Guide

    1. Re:We'll see them coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      O'Reilly - Outlook Express for dummies and idiots, in a nutshell in 24 hours pocket guide.

  5. This guy is wrong. by Krapangor · · Score: 4, Funny

    The next killer application for the internet will be govermental spyware for control of the masses.
    Welcome to the beautiful world of mind control probes.

    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
    1. Re:This guy is wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Don't believe anything he says. The government is making him say that the government is using spyware and mind-control. It's a lie to empower the U.N. shadow government to take over the world.

  6. bah by asv108 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The term killer app is so overused. The title for this article should really be:

    "Tim Oreilly tries to promote next conference.."

  7. Re:Maybe for normal users, but by trentfoley · · Score: 3, Funny

    The public will never be made directly aware of the knowledged gained from data mining. That would ruin Harry Seldon's plan.