02-23-2006, 11:01 AM
Essay examines how new social applications will influence an increasingly interconnected Internet population.
Part 1:
full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/social_web...060204.htm
Part 2:
full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/...edback.htm
Part 1:
Quote:Ben Hunt casts an eye to the future of a more connected web and how we will experience it through new social applications.
This vision features insights into new search engines, an online marketplace, and solutions for phishing and spam. Ben also predicts that Yahoo will be the dominant online brand for the next 5 years.
Here is what he sees:
full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/social_web...060204.htm
Part 2:
Quote:A lot of web applications exist to help people find products and services to solve various needs. In this I include all e-commerce sites, all sites that basically market stuff, consumer review sites, yellow pages and other directories.
Where they fail is that none of them can recommend the best solution to what you need.
Why? Because they're limited in scope and they treat all information the same (i.e. without taking context into account)...
full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/...edback.htm