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The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough
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.'"
Web 2.1! Web 2.0 is going to be really buggy!
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
Bruce Sterling wrote a similar, but even more imaginative article in Wired, about a concept which he called the hyperlocal web. The dept 'long-way-to-go' on this article is interesting in light of Sterling's piece, because in a sidebar, he basically makes the point that Google is already building all the information necessary for this sort of stuff with Google Earth. Combine that with Google's recent interest in the wireless spectrum and GPS and bam! it sorta hits you: Google's already working on this stuff. How far off are they? I guess only time will tell.
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"If I'm driving down a dirt road, I can access the Internet, enter in the key words, "eat, roast beef sandwich'. The next time I pass within 5 miles of an Arby's my device let's me know."
So will it be giving you directions or providing a warning?
Yea this will be the next big thing. The problem is that you will get directions to Arby's but you will not get directions to Bill's deli. You know that little hole in the wall where they bake their own rolls and use real roast beef?
Yea the next big thing in advertising.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Be careful what you ask for. If your job can be done remotely from the comfort of your home/a beach/a coffee shop, then it can also be done from third world countries by folks who are willing to work for much less than you are.
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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
Please stop stalking me, bro.
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!