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What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Someone is going to change the model of how we interact with computers. Keyboards are good, mice are good, big plasma screens are really good, but what's next? Is there a faster or more efficient or more enjoyable way to interact with computers? Do computers have to be boxy? Do monitors have to be rectangular? Unless we have reached the pinnacle of "consumer input/output devices," startups will eventually write the a…

Yes where are all the "Minority Report"-inspired Y Combinator startups? =)

Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Yes, but a combination of search and location will beat just search any day.

Only when location it is relevant. I'd hazard that 95% of the time that I search, I don't care about location. Pretty much everyone will ship to where I am. Here's the thing: I believe that location-based apps are more about pushing local ads to users than they are about providing services. While that remains the case, they will be a nonstarter.

I'm looking forward to location based social networking. In the loopt trials, it was said that friends with loopt discovered that they were within a couple blocks of many of their friends even when they didn't expect it. I think if all my friends were running loopt or something similar it could change behavior in a positive way.

Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Super-fast, ubiquitous (beyond mobile) network computing: the internet thoroughly integrated into the world. Access to all your data, all the time. Query-like access to the worlds data. Distributed, fragmented, interconnected web apps, APIs and aggregations. Simpler, higher-level development tools. Deeper, subtler collaboration tools. Distributed reputation, trust and identification tools. Micropayments. A network economy: entrepreneurial individuals, shifts in business organisation. Commonplace persistent virtual reality (no, really). Mind-computer interfacing.

Is that the sort of thing you meant?

Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Someone is going to change the model of how we interact with computers. Keyboards are good, mice are good, big plasma screens are really good, but what's next? Is there a faster or more efficient or more enjoyable way to interact with computers? Do computers have to be boxy? Do monitors have to be rectangular? Unless we have reached the pinnacle of "consumer input/output devices," startups will eventually write the a…

The real innovation here is going to be through the conversion of things into computers, instead of changes with computers themselves.

Instead of a different monitor shape, your stereo, your television, your car, your phone, your home systems, etc will all just become computers with the same natural interfaces they always had.

Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but a combination of search and location will beat just search any day.

Only when location it is relevant. I'd hazard that 95% of the time that I search, I don't care about location. Pretty much everyone will ship to where I am. Here's the thing: I believe that location-based apps are more about pushing local ads to users than they are about providing services. While that remains the case, they will be a nonstarter.

I get pretty pissed off when my google search results come out in dutch just because I am sitting in an airport in Holland.

Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Someone is going to change the model of how we interact with computers. Keyboards are good, mice are good, big plasma screens are really good, but what's next? Is there a faster or more efficient or more enjoyable way to interact with computers? Do computers have to be boxy? Do monitors have to be rectangular? Unless we have reached the pinnacle of "consumer input/output devices," startups will eventually write the a…

I'm in the market for something in a ... table. I don't want to spend any more than $15k.

Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?

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Someone is going to change the model of how we interact with computers. Keyboards are good, mice are good, big plasma screens are really good, but what's next? Is there a faster or more efficient or more enjoyable way to interact with computers? Do computers have to be boxy? Do monitors have to be rectangular? Unless we have reached the pinnacle of "consumer input/output devices," startups will eventually write the a…

Yes where are all the "Minority Report"-inspired Y Combinator startups? =)

Still in stealth mode.
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