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Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos

21 points by edw519 16y ago

hugh3 16y ago
I think I prefer the 2010 version, where I can drive all the way from Half Moon Bay to Stateline, Nevada without being harasssed fifteen times by various services wanting to alert me to things. Really, the only feature out of all of those mentioned that I'd like to have would be warning about traffic jams, and that's already available on GPSes somewhat more sophisticated than mine.
sorbus 16y ago
I find myself wondering how one would have time to drive a car with all of the things to do on their phone. Doubtless, accidents would increase greatly in this environment - unless, perhaps, the cars are also smart enough to drive themselves?
- rjett 16y ago
  Foursquare and Waze didn't tell Scoble that the accident he ran into in Sacramento was caused by someone looking down at their cell phone. :) In all seriousness, I think it would helpful to be able to dock your phone in your car and navigate/communicate with these apps by voice instead of having to look down and type on the phone.
rjett 16y ago
In my opinion, the most likely scenario laid out in this article: But what happens if Apple ends up building its own maps, its own location checkin service, it’s own advertising system for bringing promotions and offers to you, its own payment system, and its own travel apps? Well, then, this system would happen for Apple customers but that would weaken the ability for other companies to compete. And that would force Google’s hand into competing, or buying, these companies up, which would keep Apple from having access to some of these companies’ APIs.
henning 16y ago
This sounds like a nightmare that no one but people like Robert Scoble would fully opt in to. > He gets an alert on his mobile phone that I’m on my way and Glympse sends him the ability to watch my progress so he’ll know if I’ll be on time. This kind of surveillance is appropriate for a police state or someone who has to be monitored for drug/alcohol violations of some kind. He never actually says that these "information silos" will "die" as in go out of business, he just suggests ways they could integrate. Developing integration between all of these websites is in general ad-hoc and based on the whims of each service. If there is heavy integration between these services, each individual website will still be a silo. It's a really boring vision of technology based on endless spammy intertwingled streams of useless information.
- shadowsun7 16y ago
  In my day, we did long-forgotten things on car-rides like 'watching scenery whiz by' and 'having conversations' and 'playing I Spy'. Scoble's kids would probably be addicted to some variant of Tap Tap Revenge on his iPhone throughout the trip, chatting to their little friends back home, and posting top scores to Facebook with tags like 'scored during a road trip' or 'scored while in math class!'
hristov 16y ago
I don't know about you, but I just stopped reading after the first dozen plugs and name drops. But judging from the beginning this seems like some kind of nightmarish future science fiction story in the tradition of Philip K Dick. If someone finishes it, let me know how it turns out, ok? I wonder if he ever gets to that casino or whether it turns out that the casino does not exist and he is just a brain in a vat that is connected to every single web service out there.

21 points by edw519 16y ago

hugh3 16y ago

I think I prefer the 2010 version, where I can drive all the way from Half Moon Bay to Stateline, Nevada without being harasssed fifteen times by various services wanting to alert me to things. Really, the only feature out of all of those mentioned that I'd like to have would be warning about traffic jams, and that's already available on GPSes somewhat more sophisticated than mine.

sorbus 16y ago

I find myself wondering how one would have time to drive a car with all of the things to do on their phone. Doubtless, accidents would increase greatly in this environment - unless, perhaps, the cars are also smart enough to drive themselves?

rjett 16y ago
Foursquare and Waze didn't tell Scoble that the accident he ran into in Sacramento was caused by someone looking down at their cell phone. :) In all seriousness, I think it would helpful to be able to dock your phone in your car and navigate/communicate with these apps by voice instead of having to look down and type on the phone.

rjett 16y ago

In my opinion, the most likely scenario laid out in this article: But what happens if Apple ends up building its own maps, its own location checkin service, it’s own advertising system for bringing promotions and offers to you, its own payment system, and its own travel apps? Well, then, this system would happen for Apple customers but that would weaken the ability for other companies to compete. And that would force Google’s hand into competing, or buying, these companies up, which would keep Apple from having access to some of these companies’ APIs.

henning 16y ago

This sounds like a nightmare that no one but people like Robert Scoble would fully opt in to. > He gets an alert on his mobile phone that I’m on my way and Glympse sends him the ability to watch my progress so he’ll know if I’ll be on time. This kind of surveillance is appropriate for a police state or someone who has to be monitored for drug/alcohol violations of some kind. He never actually says that these "information silos" will "die" as in go out of business, he just suggests ways they could integrate. Developing integration between all of these websites is in general ad-hoc and based on the whims of each service. If there is heavy integration between these services, each individual website will still be a silo. It's a really boring vision of technology based on endless spammy intertwingled streams of useless information.

shadowsun7 16y ago
In my day, we did long-forgotten things on car-rides like 'watching scenery whiz by' and 'having conversations' and 'playing I Spy'. Scoble's kids would probably be addicted to some variant of Tap Tap Revenge on his iPhone throughout the trip, chatting to their little friends back home, and posting top scores to Facebook with tags like 'scored during a road trip' or 'scored while in math class!'

hristov 16y ago

I don't know about you, but I just stopped reading after the first dozen plugs and name drops. But judging from the beginning this seems like some kind of nightmarish future science fiction story in the tradition of Philip K Dick. If someone finishes it, let me know how it turns out, ok? I wonder if he ever gets to that casino or whether it turns out that the casino does not exist and he is just a brain in a vat that is connected to every single web service out there.