Where is the Web Going?
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Where is the Web Going?
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#2There's also Del.icio.us as a collection/curation platform somewhere between Twitter and Tumblr.
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#3" Within the next few years, technology will improve your life in ways you can scarcely imagine."
I doubt this. It would be nice if there were some details provided with such a grand statement.
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#4" Within the next few years, technology will improve your life in ways you can scarcely imagine." I doubt this. It would be nice if there were some details provided with such a grand statement.
Well, the very point being made is that details can't be provided - we can "scarcely imagine" them. But if you look to the past, I think you can draw parallels that give the author the benefit of the doubt here. Take a few select years from the last few decades and look at how "your life" may have changed as a direct result of technology in the time span of a few years. Around 1992, the Internet began to fundamentally alter most people's[1] lives for the better. Most of them never saw it coming. In 2008 or so, the smartphone app revolution altered developer's lives in a huge way. The examples abound, but of course it depends on who you are and what "your life" is. None of this will affect the solitary farmer in China - at least not directly, nor for a while.
[1] in the developed world. See ~2012 for the developing world.
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#5Let me get this straight here. Bookmarking, re-tweeting, and posting links on tumblr count as content creation for the purposes of this article?
I'm a bit incredulous as I don't really see it as such. I'd venture to say that you still only have ~1% of users creating content with any substance, let alone quality.
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#6"Whereas Web 1.0 was characterized by content published from one-to-many and social media was about easily creating and sharing content, from many-to-many, the curated web is about capturing and collecting only the content that matters, from many-to-one."
True story. Personalization is the future. Too many content so far.. take it.. examine it.. deliver it to each person separetely..
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#7Let me get this straight here. Bookmarking, re-tweeting, and posting links on tumblr count as content creation for the purposes of this article? I'm a bit incredulous as I don't really see it as such. I'd venture to say that you still only have ~1% of users creating content with any substance, let alone quality.
Well, technically, doing those things (re-tweeting, posting links, etc.) creates content... Substance and quality notwithstanding.
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#8By designing new interfaces, and suddenly making information accessible...
This is a very important point. Although we do harness a lot of our focus on creating "new and innovative" products, we mustn't forget about the less-fun industries that still effect our lives daily. The way that we fix these industries is through the interface and how we interact with and manipulate that data (e.g. medical records, tax information, etc.). Take what we've learned from the companies mentioned here (e.g. Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest) and apply it to existing industries.
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#9There's also Del.icio.us as a collection/curation platform somewhere between Twitter and Tumblr.
I've been using delicious again as my bookmarking and curation platform of choice.
Anyway, I think the author forgot about delicious and flickr, which started in the early 2000's peaking in media hype around 2005, which sort of changes his graph and thesis. It's no longer a nice progression of up and to the right. He just picked out examples that supported his view, and ignore the others that don't.
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#10Let me get this straight here. Bookmarking, re-tweeting, and posting links on tumblr count as content creation for the purposes of this article? I'm a bit incredulous as I don't really see it as such. I'd venture to say that you still only have ~1% of users creating content with any substance, let alone quality.
Well, technically, doing those things (re-tweeting, posting links, etc.) creates content... Substance and quality notwithstanding.
It creates data, but I'm not sure if it can be called content.