The day my mother can log on and do what she wants without instruction will be the next generation of the internet. We're nowhere close to that today. I want Star Trek for Baby Boomer moms : "Computer: send email to Gladys." "Computer: turn the channel to Polyanna" "Computer: calculate 2011 taxes paid to date and print results on the den" "Computer: show me favorite restaurant list with realtime estimated wait. Make…
Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
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#22Only one, Webkit powered browser by Google.
And even if you had to pick a single company to make a browser - why would you pick the one browser maker whose major source of income is whoring out your details?
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#25Browsers need to be silent by default regarding things that users are not equipped to make decisions about.
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#26Replaced with something else. Just about anything else, so long as it's a single clear standard.
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#28ftp://example.com
skype://example.com
mail://example.com
and the correct servers (or aliases) would get pointed to.
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#29-- even if this stable/responsive browser is unable to run 3-D immersive games and other desktop-like software
-- and even if this browser does not run Javascript very well. (Of course this last part would work only if my favorite sites do not rely heavily on Javascript, which is currently the case.)
Re: Ask HN: If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?
#30All of these things annoy users, and introduce inefficiency to the entire internet race. How many trillions of seconds are lost every year because of this? Do you think in 2050 people will put up with 30 second commercials before watching a 1 minute Hulu clip?
Obviously a lot of these things exist to fund websites, and getting rid of them would destroy business models. There needs to be a way to de-annoy the internet, and compensate content providers for lost revenue.
The number of solutions are plenty, but finding the best one will be tricky. It would have to be adopted by most of the internet to succeed, after-all.
One idea might be to bill at the ISP-level. Each client pays ~$100/mo (made up number), where $50 of that goes to the ISP, and the other $50 goes into a bucket. Pending on what websites you visit online, and for how long, they earn a certain percentage of that bucket and get paid at the end of the month. Users who only want to pay $50/mo get the annoying internet.
How would you do it?