The Future of Websites
03/07/10 11:39
I've been doing a whole load of reading lately out there on the web and social media sites and can see a time when all this great "content" will be merged together to form the real information age. In my minds eye I can imagine that when any of us write anything or post an image on the internet on any of the websites, blogs, twitter facebook or Google Me sites it'll get immediately indexed and compared with all the other content out there and matched up to form a cohesive mass of information and rather scarily it'll probably offer up some sort of conclusion.
Imagine a scenario where perhaps you're on your holiday away from home and you take a few snaps as we all do and post them on the web someone else maybe locally or on their holiday too takes some shots of the and uploads them. We all put titles and make comments about what going on and all the photo's most likely have Geotag info and we're all saying in our comments that we really like this place. Extrapolate that scenario a million times and you get a system that could come to a conclusion that the place in the photos is a good place to be. OK so not too far fetched so far. Microsoft are already matching up images people post on line.
Imagine now that because you uploaded your pictures through a log in (maybe Facebook or the like) the systems have your demographic adn that of all the other people uploading and commenting.
Now there's little old me thinking about where to go for my next holiday. I happen to match the majority demographic that like "that location" and hey presto, you have the basis of geo-demographic-location advertising.
Sort of good sort of bad.
Maybe I'll get to go on holiday to some place I never even heard of before.
What do you think?
next 5 years, 10 years, 20 years NEVER Happen?
Imagine a scenario where perhaps you're on your holiday away from home and you take a few snaps as we all do and post them on the web someone else maybe locally or on their holiday too takes some shots of the and uploads them. We all put titles and make comments about what going on and all the photo's most likely have Geotag info and we're all saying in our comments that we really like this place. Extrapolate that scenario a million times and you get a system that could come to a conclusion that the place in the photos is a good place to be. OK so not too far fetched so far. Microsoft are already matching up images people post on line.
Imagine now that because you uploaded your pictures through a log in (maybe Facebook or the like) the systems have your demographic adn that of all the other people uploading and commenting.
Now there's little old me thinking about where to go for my next holiday. I happen to match the majority demographic that like "that location" and hey presto, you have the basis of geo-demographic-location advertising.
Sort of good sort of bad.
Maybe I'll get to go on holiday to some place I never even heard of before.
What do you think?
next 5 years, 10 years, 20 years NEVER Happen?
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