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What is Next for the Internet
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I have had a couple of weeks off now and been doing a lot of research and a lot of thinking about ideas and what is coming in the next generation of the Internet. One guy I used to work for who thinks he is some kind of Internet guru thinks it is video. Sorry that has been done.
I saw a show the other day about video gaming and how a lot of the new games are very social, I have some experience playing those and it is true. But video games are fun and all, but you lose something in the translation to real life. If you are sitting at home playing video games for hours to days at a time, it is time to get out into the real world.
I feel the next generation of the Internet is with smart phones like the iPhone and Google’s new smart phone OS Android. People more and more want to be connected. The way that works is with your cell phone over 3G or faster connections. It is not a new idea and Google is definitely looking down that path with all their recent purchases.
So what I see happening in the next few years is the Internet being ported to the smart phones. As the phones become more and more powerful and as Google and Apple start to war for OS and phone market share, as they open up the market for individual programmers to build applications. The Internet will take a marked change. Currently 95% of people use it through their PC or Mac. But soon you will have all the basic functionality you want and more from your phone.
Soon your social network will extend to your phone allowing you to interact with your friends, collages and others from there. You can already access a huge amount of data from your phone, but soon it will be presented in a way that makes it much more user friendly.
Soon if your business is not online and accessible from a phone you will be missing out.
I am almost done documenting an idea to take some social media aspects from the web to your phone and use the portability of your phone to add new functionality to it. A team at MIT is working on a similar idea. There are some differences, but I personally see a lot of possibilities for smart phones and new applications that depend on data from the Internet. I am very excited about it.
I actually see it really hitting about 3 to 6 months after the new iPhone hits and the first phones with Android on them roll out. It will be a lot of fun.Labels: Technology
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