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The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the long-way-to-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TechConsumer has an interesting discussion about what it will take for the next big thing, and why Web 2.0 is only just the beginning. 'Realtors have been giving us the answer for years, although they didn't know it. The next big thing is..."location, location, location". Think of how we access all the information of the Internet. We do it at a desk, where wires keep us attached to a specific location. Laptops help us branch out a bit, but even then we are tied to a wireless connection. Go to far and you no longer have access to information.'"

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  1. Next Big Thing != Flying Car by UncleWilly · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..and when some crazy has me buried in a 18 century dungeon, my PDA, from 2019, tells me 439 meters due north is a antique mill!

    1. Re:Next Big Thing != Flying Car by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're underestimating the true power of context-based search. When some crazy has you buried in an 18th century dungeon, your PDA from 2019 will give you driving directions to the nearest Ace hardware, and a printable coupon for $2 off lock picking supplies.

  2. We all know that you have to wait for... by iknownuttin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Web 2.1! Web 2.0 is going to be really buggy!

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    1. Re:We all know that you have to wait for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      wake me up when we get to Web 3.11 for Workgroups

    2. Re:We all know that you have to wait for... by obergfellja · · Score: 3, Funny

      Screw that. I am looking forward to hacking Web XP.

    3. Re:We all know that you have to wait for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I am going to wait for Service Pack 2.

  3. Where is far? by Gman14msu · · Score: 4, Funny
    Go to far and you no longer have access to information.

    Where is this place "far" that you speak of and why can't we access information there? I feel bad for anyone from "far". Oh! You meant too far!

    I understand but come on it changes the meaning and more importantly makes it difficult to read. Quick proof read next time please.

    1. Re:Where is far? by mrchaotica · · Score: 2, Funny

      Where is this place "far"

      It's in Nowhere, about 500 miles past Middle.

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    2. Re:Where is far? by thegnu · · Score: 5, Funny

      And I have little sympathy for those who cannot see the simpler solution... change the spelling of too to to, or add another set of definitions to to.

      To whom it may concern,
      I miss the old spelling of to and to. It's not to-the-point. It's to complicated, to confusing, and darn it, to me it's clearly to be to ambiguous. To many times have we spent upwards of to days, to long to apply myself to to many to-tiered projects. Now back to my to points--to many come up, and I to have made sacrifices, paring them back to to--to point out what to you're try to talk about is to hard.

      Yours is to simple an answer for to complicated a problem. Examine the following albeit slangy phrase: "You are to clumsy!"

      Thank you,
      Nathan Curry
      like to pees in a pod
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  4. Tagged it mate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't know about everyone else, but I tagged this: 'whereisfar'.

    Seriously that threw me for a couple of seconds, I can't be the only one.

  5. I think he's means going straight to Web 3.0 by wsanders · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a whole new paradigm! Web 2.1 is so Web 1.0, nobody does QA nowadays.

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  6. There are two ways to say you're too carless... by pstav · · Score: 2, Funny

    to be writing articles. This is the nice way. --paul

  7. Oh, come on! by FiloEleven · · Score: 3, Funny

    Go to far and you no longer have access to information. I've never been to Far, but surely they're not as backwards as all that!
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    Your brain is not a computer.
  8. but this is slashdot by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    location, location, location

    Which for us on /. is usually "basement, basement, basement". Is he talking about people who have a real life or something? Now, if a gizmo could help me locate the pizza I dropped yesterday...

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  9. How too write. by E++99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go to far and you no longer have access to information.

    To bad you don't know how two proof-read.
  10. You're certainly Qualified! by encoderer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your post is late, under-delivered, and does nothing but copy those who've come before you.

    Yep, you're certainly qualified to write about Vista!

  11. Next Big Thing = Merging Amazon and Match.com by glockenspieler · · Score: 4, Funny

    "People who liked this book dated this person!"

    "People who dated this person also dated this person."

    I'm only sort of joking...

  12. Re:Location. Duh. by Experiment+626 · · Score: 4, Funny

    From my home, I have only 56kdialup available. From the South Pole, I have more.

    You're in a land populated by penguins and surprised they have good Internet connections? Where do you think Linux comes from?

  13. Re:Of course you don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not web 2.0 unless it meets ALL of the following requirements:
    - must incorporate the round progress bar
    - must incorporate a network of contacts
    - must allow you to tag things w/anonymous comments or keywords
    - must be FREE and pelt you with targeted ads
    - must be accessible via RSS feed
    - absolutely mustn't scale under significant load - ok now I'm trolling!

  14. Re:Of course you don't get it by Lehk228 · · Score: 2, Funny

    you forgot a minimum of 4 SQL injections and 4 XSS vulns each year.

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  15. Re:National parks? by ceoyoyo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on, it could be fun, all the city folk wandering around staring at screens, tripping on roots, stumbling into bears, falling off cliffs.