The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough
by Marion Jensen
Update: This article has inspired the creation of a new project called Ere I Go. Check out more scenarios of how this technology works. Feel free to contact the team behind it if you have more questions.
It’s easy to spot revolutions or major events in the past. The shrinking of computer parts in the 70s, the PC revolution of the 80s that led to the Internet explosion of the 90s, etc. At the beginning of the new millennium, we had at our fingertips millions of pages of information. It wasn’t a question of ‘is it out there somewhere’, it was a question of ‘it’s out there, how do I find it?’
Enter Google. Google wasn’t the first search engine, nor was it the last, but it quickly became THE search engine because they did something different. Google created a search engine that took all of that information and made it useful and relevant. They did it not by teaching the machine to do it, but instead by teaching the machine to observe what we humans were linking to. By tapping into the social side of information, Google quickly became the best search engine for finding the information in the sea of content.
So the latest ‘big thing’ has been the socializing of the Internet. We now find sites like Digg, reddit, Del.icio.us, etc. that help us wade through all the rough to find the diamond. The buzz word surrounding all of this has been ‘Web 2.0′. This socializing has gone a long way to making sense of it all, but is there more? What is the next big thing?
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 too far and you no longer have access to information.
Mobile devices have begun to allow us to take this information with us, but we are still stuck in an old paradigm. If I am standing in the Madrid, Spain train station, there is a good chance I want to ride a train somewhere. But when I connect to the Internet on my mobile device, I’m stuck finding information the old way: through keywords. Somewhere out there is information that would help me, but all I have our my not-as-useful keywords.
The next big thing is to organize, tag, and link information to a specific location. Think of the last time you were at a national park. It’s a very good possibility that the only information you had about the park fit on a tri-fold paper that you picked up at the visitor’s station. In the information age, how is this acceptable?
Instead, imagine visiting the park where hundreds of visitors have linked information to specific locations. You have the architect of the visitor’s center who tells you the history of the building. As you move around the park you access information provided by geologists, geographers, botanists, biologists, environmental scientists, conservationists, hiking enthusiasts, bikers, etc. etc. etc. The information is useful because it’s relevant to the location. And it becomes manageable in the same way that the 10s of millions of pictures on flickr have become manageable, through tagging.
If I’m driving down a dirt road, I can access the Internet, enter in the keywords, “eat, roast beef sandwich’. The next time I pass within 5 miles of an Arby’s, my device let’s me know. Or if I have my mountain bike on the back of my car, I search for the keywords ‘mountain bike trails’. Every time I come within a few miles of a trail, my GPS device alerts me.
We’re beginning to see the first threads of this next big idea. Pictures and Wikipedia articles are now linked to Google Earth. You can access information about a location, but it’s still at your desk. The real revolution will come when this information can be accessed completely and easily from a mobile device, while you’re at that location.
Today we have access to an unfathomable amount of information. Web 2.0 has helped us begin to organize and make sense of that information. Tying information to a location is the next step and will literally open up a whole new world.
Here’s hoping the next iPhone has a built-in GPS.
marionjensen at gmail dot com
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103 Comments 
July 16th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
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July 16th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
A simple GPS meta tag (which contains coordinates if the website is focused on a geographic location) in the head tag might do the trick for a website.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I’ve been trying to do this while going broke the past 3 years
lol… if anyone has any suggestions for how my site can be better please ask. I thought of sort of a local marketplace where people can search stores in their area for inventory… this is a ridiculous undertaking and requires the co-operation of all the stores. The beauty of Google was it didn’t require (barrier to entry) any co-operation from anyone, it just simply looked at backlinks and said “this place is popular” and “this one isn’t” if only I could figure out an algorithm to say which restaurant is popular, minus all the reviews or at least validate them all somehow 
July 16th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
The next big thing is hiring an editor.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Sure, but it’s still a hardware problem. The technology to do the rest exists, it’s all pending the magic devices to provide the front end. Right size, good screen, great interface, great battery life, knows where it is, great network access, affordable. We’re close but it’s not there yet.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Check out the project going on at NJIT entitled SmartCampus. Seems like they are trying to meet your demand, at least on a managable test level first
July 16th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
OK, so what I’m thinking of involves the GPS device (whether something like iPhone or something installed at a physical location), and using a wiki to compile info based on that location, within 500 feet, within a mile, etc. If you’re at a state park, you’ll be interested in knowing about the 2 mile hiking trail starting in 500 feet to your right, or that the nearest restaurant is 5 miles that-a-way. As you travel, that GPS data changes based on the location, your preferences (find a bathroom now!, find a 4 star restaurant, etc.), and so on. That would definitely be a killer app…
July 16th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
The biggest problem is that the amount of data that exists that is not geographically tagged is doomed to fall away.
Need to get a standard to capture the data today, for future use.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Web 2.0 is the semantic web, which includes both social and location linking.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
The standard exists - it is called GML (Geography Markup Language) - the Web 2.0 was not quite there - and it is the GeoWeb (see http://www.geoweb.org ) that will offer what you seek - the integration of the real world ONTO the Internet.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
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July 16th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Uh… k… so actually Web 2.0 is not just about the social networking stuff… social networking is about adding meta data… geotagging data is just another kind of meta data, and part of “Web 2.0″… as much as a buzz-word means much of anything.
Does Marion Jensen have a profile somewhere?
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July 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Idea. Why not use wi-fi for a site instead of GPS locations? Not everything has GPS capabilities, while most laptop’s at least have wi-fi, and some cell phones now have wi-fi as well. Any one in range of the site could have their DNS settings automatically go to an information page for that site. Should be easy to write an app that corresponds wi-fi spots to geography locations, either through specific site numbering or a code broadcast by the wi-fi spot itself. This would allow you to determine where you are and whats close to you.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Sorry, but I don’t buy this at all. How much of my time do I spend at train stations? Very little. Do I want to be connecting to the internet at those few interstitial moments of my life when I am not near a laptop or PC? Nope. Location, location, location is NOT where it’s at. Simple idea, but wrong, wrong, wrong.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Of course the last comment ignores the fact that you need and can access information quite apart from a PC or laptop? I assume you have a phone? I assume you are indeed aware of the world around you at the train station (or anywhere else) - and often want to know something about that world - or be reminded - or be assisted. I think the hard part right now is that the technology is TOO VISIBLE - the success of the social networking part of the Web is that it is now beyond technology - is only about experience and creativity, whereas the geo-world is still emerging into the light and hence focused on the how!
July 16th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I’d love to have my cell (or whatever carry around device it’ll be in the future) to remind me of the groceries I knew I wanted to buy as soon as I walk into a super market or something. Have the device recognize the locations that link me to certain activities and stuff that I should remember when at such a location.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Laptops and mobile phones nowadays have connectivity to the net, but how many people do you see walking on bike trails with a laptop/notebook/etc trying to find out where the next trail is? That’s what the Local printed Maps are for! So yo udont need to carry around a Laptop/notebook/etc with GPS and Net functionality.
I agree with nkey - Location is not the next big thing for the Web. It might be useful to some (like people PLANNING a holiday/Trip) but it wont be used constantly by these same people.
People just dont want to have technology around them all the time - they want to get away from it sometimes - using their example, that is why some people want to go Hiking or Mountain Biking!
July 16th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Yes Ron, I do have a phone. Yes, I am aware of the world around me at a train station. I ‘know something about the world’ by looking at it with my eyes. No I do not require much ‘assistance’ in the train station. What is your point? ‘The geo-world is still emerging into the light and hence focused on the how’?? What are you smoking? Probably the same stuff the author of the article is.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
So anyway, I don’t think this idea is the next big thing, but I have to say what I think it is, so as not to be merely negative. Visit this site http://www.opencroquet.org and you can go see it for yourself. If you are too busy playing with your cellphone to be bothered to install it, just search for ‘croquet’ on Youtube. Co’o!
July 16th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I did not mean to be aggressive. The point is that the use of location information will become all that more usable and accessible when it ceases to be visible and require effort on the part of the user. I am sure that arriving in a train station you may have wondered where your hotel is located - or expected that someone else did that arranged the trip - and most certainly you relied on the train company that runs the trains, the engineering company that built the rail infrastructure, the hotel where you are staying etc. to have current views of the real world. The next role of the web (Web 2.1 or GeoWeb) is not all about consumers - but about creating a reasonably accurate and current model of the real world that integrates the interests of wide variety of stakeholders from engineers to end use consumers.
The issue of the Geo-world - here I meant the companies, agencies etc concerned with geographic information technologies from Google to Galdos (see http://www.geoweb.org) which are very focused on the HOW of ubiquitous geospatial computing and so talk a lot about the technology. When it works we will no longer think or talk about the technology - just we talk very little now about the technology of the web that mediates social interaction.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
First link googling cell phone location: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=505792
July 16th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
OK - So the next big thing is virtual collaborative worlds - Yes - no argument - but now merge that just a little with the real world (which after all does exist) and ..
July 16th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Cellphones service providers know it (our location as long as there is reception) all the time! why can’t we piggy back on that to automatically get a geo-location service?
http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/content/search?SearchText=geo+location
July 16th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
This article started out great and turned into a bunch of tech evangelism for iPhone. Rather than plugging in all the hype keywords to boost your SEO would you mind linking to some of the tools that allow you to browse images with Google Maps and such? You seem to be the one in the know. Back up your research with evidence rather than trailing off on other subjects and you’ll haave a great article.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Peace, Ron. I enjoy the sacred herb too. Virtual collaborative worlds are still emerging into the light. Reality is for people who can’t handle acid
July 16th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Could we please have some meat with all those potatoes?!?!
This “article” is flat, sophomoric, and void of originality. So this is what High Tech has been reduced to? Wow, it must have taken a whole 20.8 seconds to think this one up.
The only reason it may seem kewl to the script kiddies is because mobile devices have been purposely held back by proprietary protectionism. But there isn’t anything grand or elegant here.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Well put Voltron! Simple and too the point.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Look at the work being done on “Systems of Systems” and Berners-Lee’s “Semantic Stack”.
There’s several NEW things coming, we don’t know what they are yet, but we’re building the scaffolding …GPS ain’t it.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Well, it’s good to see there’s no shortage of critics in the world. I was worried there for a minute that this might actually be a flawless piece of work! But some diligent commenters have shown us the light.
Thanks to those who provided some useful ideas and links. It’s intriguing to see the evolution/state of geographically tagged data.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
You might be interested to know that Garmin has released a browser plugin that gives access to your GPS via some javascript APIs.
Hopefully, GPS chips will become more pervasive and integrated into phones and laptops, and the javascript APIs will be standardized across GPS vendors
July 16th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Pitty your new idea is about 20 years old.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Forgot to paste the relevant link:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/where20_garmin.html
July 16th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
At school, we wrote a businessplan related to just this thing back in 2001.
Positioning will be more amazing than anything in this article. The services won’t arrive until most devices have cheap positioning devices (and gyroscopes) in them, though.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
At least some of this is possible. In Australia, there’s cell-based positioning for some applications. It’s not really accurate or anything, but it makes your searches location-related. These links (sadly) will only work for people on the Telstra network. http://mobile.whereis.com.au http://mobile.yellow.com.au
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July 17th, 2007 at 1:58 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 5:38 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Meat i-City.
From their site: “i-City is an exceptional research laboratory for mobile applications. i-City is the largest experimental garden for mobile applications anywhere in the world. i-City has turned the Belgian cities of Hasselt and Leuven into a huge laboratory. By these means i-City is already now able to develop the applications of the future on a large-scale basis and test them in real life situations.”
I think this is exactly what you’re saying
July 17th, 2007 at 5:59 am
True true, geolocating is going to be important. It will be great to live in LA, SF, NY for the next few years to be the first to play around with the possibilities.
Your story reminds me of Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson’s Epic prediction… http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
July 17th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Imagine being John Anderton - Tom Cruise’s character in Minority Report, sifting through volumes of data with the flick of your fingers on a huge virtual screen to arrive at the precise information that could save someone? Quintura’s “see and find” visual search engine is a first significant step in that right direction.
You first encounter a bunch of tags (which they call “cloud”) akin to a visual map when you start the search process. Each comes with a sub-list of keywords and phrases, to help broaden or narrow down your search as the case may be! The right hand side (like all right brains) behaves in a conventional search engine way, displaying lists of search results. The further you delve into the cloud, the search engine adds the selected words to the query to narrow down and refine your search results.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Geotagging is not so new anymore, but I do understand the point you are making. This could prove to be interesting, yes, but I think there is also a serious downside that might prevent this from being accepted anywhere. It surprises me not one of the commenters above has mentioned any privacy concerns. I don’t want some device tracking my every move, even if it’s just to provide me with useful information. Everyone knows technology is not 100% secure, so there is a chance information gathered from your personal locator could be abused by..
Advertisers: pop-ups with discount when you’re near their store.
Criminals: see when you’re not at home.
Goverment: tracks your every move.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:06 am
mapping, means more SVG, which most mobiles already support.
See http://svg.startpagina.nl and its mobile section
July 17th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Localized searching is definitely the next ‘big thing’ but really, how hard is it other than getting smaller local merchants to have a website and get it optimized properly.
The next ‘big thing’ in the Internet will not be about a new technology, but bringing on those who are still not part of the Internet, online.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:32 am
I would say it’s the next small thing - incremental innovation, not really radical
July 17th, 2007 at 7:41 am
“Web 2.0 is the semantic web”
Ummmmmmm, no. Web 2.0 doesn’t really exist anymore, it’s here and we’re using it.
The Semantic Web, I guess you could say it is being built. It’ll exist when all web content creators built in that vein. XML is a step in that direction and is widely used now, but it’s not enough to say it’s here (APIs are a step towards the semantic web too IMHO),
July 17th, 2007 at 7:58 am
“Here’s hoping the next iPhone has a built-in GPS.”
Or.. you could just forget the iPhone and get yourself a Nokia N95 which has a built in GPS receiver.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:05 am
The problem is this. You have the major telcos wanting to block cheap free WiFi because once it’s ubiquitous - who would even use a cell phone? Little VOIP phones would be everywhere. That’s why AT&T is running ads saying not that they are a phone company but a wireless company. What’s holding innovation back is mostly the giant companies claiming to do it. They won’t let it happen until they know how to profit from it. Even though they could probably profit beyond their wildest dreams if they would just go ahead and DO it instead of seek to control it.
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July 17th, 2007 at 8:16 am
The last time articles like these were being kicked around on Digg, it lead to an explosion in Web 2.0. We’re going to be hitting web 3.0 but there isn’t much to add since Web 2.0 basically shook everything up..I guess everything will just become more mobile.
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July 17th, 2007 at 8:41 am
The next iteration of the Internet is being drafted as semantic, which is much more generic (and better) than simply introducing a user’s location into the equation.
What you’re suggesting is a very minor subset (one element, in fact) of the next, ‘complete’ web implementation.
- Dave
July 17th, 2007 at 8:43 am
GPS, location and data meshup - great. Should be through mobile. And easier to use then web, so voice + more data on screen (video, text, links).
But for a start - what about Bluetooth and Wi-Fi? They can be used for info on visit to stations or museums, so we can receive all data we want in easy and cheap fashion.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:45 am
You are 180 degrees out on your position. Dead wrong. The answer is not tying data to one location, it is making the (your) location irrelevant to a more robust, faster, more secure internet. Check out Dr. Strassmann’s work, particularly his Google video on Information Architecture of the Future at http://www.strassmann.com. Data location will eventually be irrelevant to the user; you just go to your internet device, log in to the net (in general; that’s whay more robust security is important) and get your data from an amorphous “cloud:. Beautiful, yet terrifying and very insightful stuff.
russell
July 17th, 2007 at 8:52 am
This article touches something that will inevitably happen in the short term. Nokia has made public announcement that all their mobile phones will have an embedded GPS chip. People are networking on a larger scale and they need assistance in locating both information and colleagues / friends.
There is already some attempts at solving this and our service: http://www.kakiloc.com is one of them.
Great article - Thanks
July 17th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Marion; are you a programmer? Did you contribute to Web2.0? Lax standards and browsers that lack standards mean you’re always going to be programming around restrictions. Try all you like to promote that Web2.0 isn’t enough but it’s only just happened. Get your hands dirty and push the whole thing along if you like.
Tag and organize things through Meta data exists in search engines. If all you’re saying is try to make that more visible then write to W3C. We’re so far behind because the population liked Windows for so long. They’re not exactly developing their browser much past where it’s standing now.
At the end of the day I’m looking for content and I have sources that I rely on. The web is just chaotic, with or without tagging.
July 17th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Ditto from above: hire an editor. A good argument loses credibility when it is poorly presented.
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July 17th, 2007 at 9:29 am
I hear the man in the backgrounng going… Yes GPS in everything…Exccccccelent!
It will make our lives easier and maybe better but security concerns are going to skyrocket!
http://www.askTheAdmin.com
July 17th, 2007 at 9:29 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Sounds to me like you’d at least want something akin to Photosynth ( http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ ), but capable of categorizing huge amounts of non-graphical data in addition to images.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:24 am
“But there isn’t anything grand or elegant here.”
Welcome to Web 2.0.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:53 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 10:55 am
The next big thing is that somebody (hopefully) invents software that actually works. Our dreams are limited by our technologies.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:03 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
oh my god. where you got this information? mickey mouse magazine 2001?
July 17th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
why not wi-fi?
If a hotel can capture and trap my browser when I log get on their network, why couldn’t the national park broadcast and offer that on a wireless lan. Devices could click accept and get all the goodies the article suggests
July 17th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I actually had a post on my company’s blog that looked at many of the same issues, looking specifically at how the geoweb might change marketing: http://www.newmediasense.net/mobile/tag-youre-it-part-2-where-in-the-world/
I think it is also worth mentioning the Wired article on this topic last month: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_maps and Google’s embracing of KML which will make this possible. Good post, no matter what some of the comments above say.
July 17th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I would agree that location is where it’s at, or where it will be. The killer application for Web 2.0 though will not be as described in this article, but it will be something similar. Ever hear of Zip Car, or Flex Car? Imagine you need to go somewhere and your trip being paid for by merchants eager to attract your business. Imagine Zip Cars scattered all around a particular city. Imagine being able to simply get in one and going to whereever you like without having to worry about making a reservation or a specific return time and place. Maybe this is why Steve Case bought Flex Care a few years back. I’ve had this idea for over five years, and I’ve essentially been ignored, but I now see it coming to pass.
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July 17th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Is this an example of web 2.0: Funny Online Videos
July 17th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
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July 17th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
IMHO, geotagging data in one form or another is metadata - not a fundamental revolution. The revolution implicit in MJ’s article is the ubiquity & generalization of the web: the web will no longer be a destination in and of itself, but will become an enabling transaction layer in all aspects of our day to day life.
For instance - If I were on vacation, my camera would automatically upload my photos to Flickr and videos to YouTube to my personal accounts, nicely geotagged using built in GPS, etc. I could then share my video’s at my friend’s place on their Apple TV, and the digital picture frame at my office would automatically start rotating through my new vacation photos.
The web unites all of these different devices and transaction types - without me having ever actually opened a browser on a PC.
IMHO, that’s 3.0.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
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July 17th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
uhh…sure geo-location sounds like loads of fun, but PLEASE make sure I have an OFF button. The idea of being permanently tracked around the globe as I wander about is pretty darn invasive.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
We are living in an informational world where information and thought is no ones monopoly. The best thing we could do to keep our things our belongings to separate shelves so as to organize it for later findings.
Very good article.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
as i see web2 is consumr oriented, but what about b2b Socializing?
July 17th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
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July 18th, 2007 at 2:33 am
Is anybody interesting in finding out a killer application based location and communication and WEB X.0?
Location is not only a tag and relationship of information, but also means we can know all lively or in time if add communication and WEB X.0 service.
If building up a p2p group or community, any application will jump out and let all crazy.
Try and wait!
July 18th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Sounds like the beginning of noosphere creation. In the future, RFID, GPS, and even semacodes could work to make information relevant to location.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:12 am
Translated into German at:
http://www.i-locate.de/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=21&cntnt01origid=15&cntnt01lang=DE_de&cntnt01returnid=15
one of the first comments mentioned location-based web. this is already available via Geo http headers (e.g. geo.region=)
see Daviel & Kaegi
http://geotags.com/geo/draft-daviel-kaegi-http-geo-header-05.txt
or Carboni, Giroux & Piras
http://www2004.org/%20proceedings/docs/2p318.pdf
July 18th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Enought of this 2.0 stuff, I want 3.0.
Where is my Smell-o-Vision!
July 18th, 2007 at 8:45 am
To be honest, your thoughts scare me. I am all gun ho for tech, but that is way to much of a “big brother” is wacthing scenerio for me. I need tech, but if I want to eat Arby’s, i don’t need the computer to know - beep, beep, my coffee is done.
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July 19th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Personally, I think I’d enjoy the park better if you all left your eGadgets behind.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Yes, this will be a part of Web 3.0, but I also think it will be about personalization, too - i.e. sites being able to completely adapt to the needs of individual users.
Sure, you can do this now, but it’s usually just the bigger companies that are doing it at the moment (i.e. Google adapting their search depending on your location.)
I guess we’ll see…
Paul Hancox
http://www.InternetInfluenceMagic.com
July 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am
[...] un articolo di TechConsumer argomenta a proposito di quale potrebbe essere “The Next Big Thing“, spiegando perchè [...]
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Don’t think of web 3.0 from the gadget-point-of-view, and you’ll have a glimpse of what web 3.0 might be.
Don’t be naive about the privacy issues.. if you use a credit card, or have a cellphone, or internet connection, then someone has already tagged you in some kind of consumer-type related category, and is already sending you “popup” publicity while you travel to work.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:39 am
[...] my latest newsletter from Mapdata Sciences there was a reference to a Tech Consumer Blogg article with some interesting comments on the future of ubiquitous GPS [...]
September 7th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
[...] it formalizes the thoughts of TechConsumer author Marion Jensen who received attention when he wrote on this subject two months ago. While Marion stopped short of calling the location-based Internet Web 3.0, it’s good to know [...]
October 28th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
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October 29th, 2007 at 7:46 am
[...] M. (2007), The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 isn’t Enoug [Accessed [...]
October 31st, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I dream for the “Smell-o-Vision!” too :))
But with a mute mode vailable :))
February 11th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
gps personal tracking devices…
yes indeed……
February 14th, 2008 at 4:00 am
garmin bluetooth gps…
If you are in the market for a navigation system, you cannot go wrong with the portable gps ratings and reviews system….
February 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
[...] test 02/17/2008 The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough | TechConsumer [...]
February 18th, 2008 at 7:47 am
[...] My daily readings 02/18/2008 The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough | TechConsumer [...]
March 31st, 2008 at 9:18 am
[...] guys come along and create a platform that allows you to do just that. In 2-3 years, when this is the next big thing, remember that you heard it here first. Subscribe to TechConsumer: RSS / Email Sphere It [...]
April 30th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
[...] http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/07/16/the-next-big-thing-why-web-20-isnt-enough/ [...]