The keynote and conversation
tagged: web2con
It is stuff that we have heard. Web 2.0 is about the Network as the Platform. Low barrier to entry and lightweight business models. Companies that survived the dotcom bust were those that treated the web as a connective application. Realizing the potential of the web more fully, and using that is how they became leaders.
Maps – Interesting battles between people about where the ultimate top level sources are for data.
Display – New ways of contextualizing, displaying user experiences is a huge deal right now.
Web as platform? – No, things that run over it. Not the web as platform, the web as infrastructure.
Convergence: will media and Internet converge? Are they separate? Why is there a distinction between the two? What prevents Google from being a media distribution system? Nothing really, just getting over paradigm shifts that exist in that last mile to the home.
Myspace – Very cheap or worthless.
Earthlink…..
A sat in a phone? My god. Sign me up please, right now. NOW. Convergence of TV and handheld devices will be a killer app.
No iPod’s in Korea. But they have music enabled cell phones, 10 million this year for a country of 40 million. 70% of music sold in Korea is sold on mobile phones. SK Telecom (number one mobile operator in Korea) is also the number one music distributor online or offline (crazy). Kids do over-the-air downloads of music, full music, not ringtones.
Bran Ferren
More appropriate for Web 3.0 rather than 2.0. What sucks now and will suck less by 3.0. What is holding up the computer revolution? It isn’t processor power, connectivity, memory, etc. It is not power. Clearly there are huge areas in the software domain that people are clueless about.
We are really waiting for the next human interface, and that is that. Right now our interfaces suck, for the past 25 years. The idea that a KVM is how we access with computer platforms is offensive. Englebart invented it 40 years ago, nearly 45 years ago. His original demonstrations were better than our general purpose computers.
This is going to be the new frontier. If we’re going to get to 3.0, we can’t take the gigantic processing powers of everything and filter it down to bits to get to a human. This has to be the thing that will enable people designing apps, etc to move forward to the next stage. Applied Minds is the company.
Displays is 150×60 degrees. 20 megapixels (can’t see them). Fast enough to refresh. 100fps.
I want ALL OF THIS IN MY HOUSE NOW.
Second Life
Virtual world, the Matrix without evil machines. Rebuild our bodies? Seems a bit counter, but whatever. It is 1000 different machines. A land is 16 acres = one server. You buy land and then develop it.
It has a complete economy. Very much Metaverse-ish, but better than the things I played with in the Web 1.0 (ActiveWorlds, Blaksun, etc). I hope it lasts.
Writely
Web based word processor. Pretty good system, very tight niche but I don’t yet know what the markatability is.
Google
Google rocks. Google is scary. Google, hold me.
Love keeping up with this, love Murmurs…but you have to eliminate the word ‘shall’ from your vocabulary. People hate that.
hi there.
just wanted to say i appreciate your coverage of the conference. you’re taking really fun notes!
-t
Yes yes, “shall” is overused in my lexicon. I’ll try to do better. I tend to overuse certain words such as “whereas” or “aforementioned.” Its a hold over from my art school writing days.
“Aforementioned” and “whereas” are fine; I’m a fan.
Like what you have to say. Your blog makes good since to me.