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What will come after web apps and social sites?
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#32Location based apps on cell phones.
I disagree. Location Based Services will never be that big. Simple fact is that we're not moving much so LBS uses will never be that great.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best analysis I've heard of this is: "Location is a much poorer indication of intent than Search."
Yes, but a combination of search and location will beat just search any day.
How often do you search for something and need to input your location?! Looking for a restaurant or something?
99.99% of your searches don't benefit at all from location.
Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?
#34More integration between desktop and web environments. Eventually becoming a one inseparable instance.
Yes, definitely. From a UI perspective, the power of the desktop is something no web app can touch. Web apps are around because the thing they do that desktop apps don't--pulling information from other computers into the cloud--is hugely powerful, obviously. The developments of the past few years notwithstanding, I think the future of front ends is tipped heavily in favor of desktop apps that are tightly integrated with information culled from web services. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates alluded to this in their interview at D. The iPhone, incidentally, is a great, early example of how local apps can trounce the sort of UI you'd find on the web while still adding value to the web apps they integrate with.
Also next, I think, is going to be users increasingly expecting that any site they visit should recognize them.
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#35Warp drive.
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#36What are the next sites that will get their users laid.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
"wow, you really bummed me out, because the dozen other people I had talked to before you were all like, `a free groupware system, that's an awesome idea!' Then you depressed me, and I came back here and told the other guys what you had said, and they were all, `Oh, fuck. He's right.'"
man, I hate that.
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#37Someone 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…
Multitouch is one of those things that everyone can understand is great. People look at it and get it and want it. It's a big reason why the iPhone is what it is.
Now, of course, there's still the gorilla-arm problem if you want to put it on a wall, but Cintiq or table-style, no problem. Folks out there should be thinking two or three steps ahead on this technology, I try to.
Keep your eye on Perceptive Pixel:
Article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/112/open_features-cantto...
Demo: http://light.vpod.tv/?s=0.0.135867
Fascinating speculation: http://informationrain.com/2007/06/10/resolution-independenc...
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#38I think robotics and automation will tranform our world in the coming decade. We are almost at the point where (if we put our minds to it), there's nothing that we can't automate (IMHO).
Re: What will come after web apps and social sites?
#39Someone 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? =)
Automated driving is open government-sponsored competition.
Sick-sticks are just a different form of tazer.
Eye transplants require better surgical techniques for the optic nerve to last.
Reading the future is impossible.
People are actively working on cognitive enhancers without side effects. They won't be stealthy once they work.
Keeping people in stasis requires a better understanding of brains.
Electronic Ink is getting better, but video on a reasonable display will take some time.
Gestural interfaces work fairly well, but the only deployed systems are for games (EyeToy for PS2). This has room for growth. But the large screen would probably be better used for teleconferencing as remote teams need better tools than we have today. But Wii and Multi-Touch IPhone are almost there.
The spider robots must have had an incredible amount of computation and powerful sensors in order to map a room, detect people, and locomote. The mobility platform wouldn't be that hard to build, but would be fragile compared with the treads you find in today's military robots.
Seeing people through walls is done with radar by the military today.
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#40Personally I think that products that help people mange information overload while providing them a social experience are going to take off in the year or so. Basically finding ways to tailor information towards the individual instead of just analyzing the data for the general population.
I agree; web apps and social sites have huge potential and will be big for years to come. Thing is, they have already been "discovered." I wonder which, out of the many concepts that seem irrelevant today, will be huge someday.