the web as the secondary source of information…
Yes, I am still rambling about the transition meme. This is yet another transition post.
the web is webpages, blogs, communities purely based on webstandards and computers.
so the future of web and the future of connection:
I think they will be seperated from each other. They are not going to be the same thing anymore.
so being connected does not mean to be on the web. Being connected means that your gadgets are talking to your computer which is talking to your cellphone.
no more about web in this post.
now; connection.
So am I getting tired of asyncronious communication ? hell no, bring it on. So why am I so keen on declaring web 2.0 dead ? because for me it’s time to move ahead. there’s nothing more web 2.0 can do for me as a girl, well maybe, but I know all the analogies and I know the way the web 2.0 mindset works, I know it to pieces and it kinda bores me by now. Im not paying attention if I am at a conference and somebody important is talking about social applications and how to implement the web 2.0 mindset.
I can even receive Oscar updates from twitter now from people who are actually in the room, sitting next to Britney and Paris and telling me whats up.. if that isn’t making websites secondary in the information chain – then what is ? the personal, instant, spontanious informations supplied by my peers that I select myself is going to be primary source and then comes the web…
and that’s exactly my point. Making the web the secondary source of information. Not the first place to look for stuff ( because it’s actually going to be thrown in your face by the transitional mobile apps)
think about when Jaiku finally launches their sms’ service so you can get rss updates etc etc thrown at you on your phone. or you can have your chumby or your nabaztag read your blogs for you – perhaps even show them ?
it’s gonna be a thrilling but scary ride. A freakshow without comparison and it thrills me !
Im not even going to think about what will happen to viral la la land ( or viral marketing if you will) or hackers and spam – that’s a whole other story…
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Henriette
I think your right – powered by webtechnology the connections will be first source of information and the web secondary – but if the web apps are going to be on the desktop – I think the web is going to redefine itself further..
very interesting though…
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The way I see it, we can describe the following states:
0- Localized Information – “everything” was on your PC
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1- Web of Documents – early days, all about presentation
2- Web of Data – late 90′s, search all over, pointers to data
3- Web of People – social networking, messaging, all about people interacting…
4- Web of Things – information is “everywhere” all the time, you can consume anyway you like, all things are somehow interconnected
To get from 0 to 1 you had to let go the concept of communication as an expensive task where you’d establish a point-to-point connection. You had to think of communication as a mesh of connected nodes that could talk to each other.
To get from 3 to 4 (where we are standing right now) you’ll have to let go the concept of information consumption as a task where you establish a point-to-point interaction (reading a web page, reading a blog post, updating your Hi5 profile, and so on). You’ll have to think of interaction as a mesh of connected information that can talk to each other.
I call this stage the “Unfolded Web”. Imagine an Origami. When you look at it you see a form, a presentation. But an Origami is just a plain piece of paper, folded. What if you want to create a diferent form using that piece of paper? You’ll have to unfold the Origami and start over again, right?
That’s just what we’re doing right now. We’re Unfolding the Web so that we can fold it back in any ways we want to. In a near future we’ll be able to consume mixed information in ways never imagined before.
I know this sounds kind of phillosophical right now, but that’s just the way it is. Ideas start somehow and then, who knows, they materialize.
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hi Bruno – it is very filosofical – I think that the Unfolded Web is a great term – I use the transitional web – for where we are right now because a transition has to be made, and it is what is required from web 2.0 companies( R.I.P guys) I like your idea of web of people and web of things… *s* we are at this place, the interesting thing is to see how well the communities will handle this transition from people to things…
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Funny part is, web technology will be powering most of what you are describing. Same for web applications, they’ll move into the Desktop. Either as a native app or in a special browser(shell).