Waiting for the next big thing
I think we’re in a rut. A semantic, AJAX-powered, XML-based, open source rut. I have had a hard time getting excited about tech news of late, hence the last little while I haven’t been posting as much nor with as much passion as I have in the past.
I’m looking at everything we’re doing and seeing that we’re re-working and refining what we’ve developed.
Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, RSS, blogging…we’ve been at this a while, but what’s truly new or revolutionary? Don’t get me wrong, I think this is all amazing … I’m just anxious to see the next big thing.
The question is what.
The new path forward is us
If there is one thing we’ve all seen recently it is that our collective, crowdsourced ideas can product amazing stuff, but right now we’re stuck.
Being stuck isn’t a bad thing, though. Being stuck brings frustration. The feeling of “we have to do it better” that just gets people to start having crazy ideas like lightbulbs, TCP/IP, the Slurpee (okay I was grasping for the last one).
The point is when we get stuck, we don’t like it and we want/need to change it. That’s when the best minds among us start to scribble things on napkins and whiteboards and asking what if…
What if …
What if the lines around information really became transparent. What if I could structure my information and data in a mindmap and zap it over to someone who was more linear and they just read it as they’d like to. No additional software, just they get the file (sorry stuck in that metaphor) and open it in their information tool and see it.
What if we could just keep dragging and dropping parts and information, but keeping the connections all together so that it will even update if the original changes.
What if… probably one of the most important questions we can utter.
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3 opinions for Waiting for the next big thing
Jon Husband
Jun 24, 2008 at 7:48 am
The NBT (Next big thing) might be a challenge like this … ?
scottp
Jun 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Yeah, I know what you mean, nothing new lately. Someone’s gotta be sitting on something new. I am so tired of seeing articles about Web 2.0. The only thing I have heard of that is new lately is Glyphius, the software that scores your ad copy. It is supposed to make people click on your Google Adwords ad. I’ve wasted so much money on non-productive Adwords ads. It sounds like Glyphius is better than Headline Creator Pro. I read about it a few places.
Well, keep you chin up. With technology the way it is there’ll be something new soon enough.
Okay Twitter you have your money, now could you fix it please?
Jun 24, 2008 at 10:45 pm
[…] I’m waiting for the next big thing, but I also see microblogging as a part of that picture. FriendFeed, well that could survive […]
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