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Technologies That Will Rock 2011

32 points by davidedicillo 16y ago

narkee 16y ago
> On Quora, you can follow not only people, but topics and questions. It defines the world by your interests, not just the people you may know or admire. This is a powerful concept and is not limited to Quora (both Twitter and Facebook also want to own the interest graph), but Quora is designed from the ground up to expose and help you explore your interests. So, like sub-reddits? A lot of people compare Quora to StackOverflow and derivatives, but I see more of a resemblance to reddit, if you keep only self-posts.
- jw84 16y ago
  It's all derivative of forum software. Thread, post, reply, notify, user, profile, follow. If Reddit has an interest graph built on a social graph with a Twitter graph and a map to find all these graphs then they too can be the media darlings of Silicon Valley. But, wait, they slayed Digg, is that not good enough of a narrative in 2010? Quora has now momentum, I think that's going to get them over the hump more so than anything else. When Steve Case is on your site commentin', that's at least worth $1MM in valuation right there.
- kmfrk 16y ago
  Nah, topics are tags; a question can have several topics, whereas a reddit thread can only belong to one category. (reddit terminology is not my forté.) On the negative side, I feel like some evil search engine optimizer when I plaster my questions with topics.
joeguilmette 16y ago
I'm most excited for the 'streaming cloud'. can't wait until i can pay $10/mo to access to all music on all my devices. yea theres rdio and a few others, but its not there yet. i hope it gets there soon. and i hope netflix lets me pay more to have access to better content.
- andrewacove 16y ago
  He mentions mobile phones in this context. I don't foresee the telecoms giving up bandwidth caps (or worse, metered bandwidth). There's no way I'm streaming media over the carrier networks to my phone if it's using up my bandwidth allotment or running against a meter.
  - Raphael 16y ago
    A lot of people will pay for the convenience if the price is reasonable, say 10 cents per gigabyte.
revorad 16y ago
The most interesting technologies will be the ones no analyst or blogger can predict. Some examples from 2010: Coffeescript Rapportive Wordlens Hipmunk Blekko
- kn0thing 16y ago
  I like the way you think, revorad ;) I appreciate the hipmunk love.
whackedspinach 16y ago
I know this is all mostly software, seeing as it is techcrunch, but what about hardware? Isn't Lightpeak coming out this year? I feel like that will be a big deal.
- losvedir 16y ago
  Indeed. I'm thinking Kinect might be a big deal, once the open source hacking community really takes off.
axiom 16y ago
I know this probably won't happen in 2011, but I would kill for a phone/laptop that had wireless charging/sync that was practical (i.e. had a range of a few feet at least, and was decently fast.)
lawfulfalafel 16y ago
No mention of AMD fusion? Kind of a biased title for only web-based technologies.
samratjp 16y ago
The single most important technology that TechCrunch left out: JavaScript and HTML5 (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's more of a spec than a separate technology). More desktop like apps will enter the stage in time for cross mobile compatibility. Yehuda Katz's joining SproutCore is a very good sign of things to come. Node.js will hopefully make it on to production at a lot more startups.

32 points by davidedicillo 16y ago

> On Quora, you can follow not only people, but topics and questions. It defines the world by your interests, not just the people you may know or admire. This is a powerful concept and is not limited to Quora (both Twitter and Facebook also want to own the interest graph), but Quora is designed from the ground up to expose and help you explore your interests. So, like sub-reddits? A lot of people compare Quora to StackOverflow and derivatives, but I see more of a resemblance to reddit, if you keep only self-posts.

jw84 16y ago
It's all derivative of forum software. Thread, post, reply, notify, user, profile, follow. If Reddit has an interest graph built on a social graph with a Twitter graph and a map to find all these graphs then they too can be the media darlings of Silicon Valley. But, wait, they slayed Digg, is that not good enough of a narrative in 2010? Quora has now momentum, I think that's going to get them over the hump more so than anything else. When Steve Case is on your site commentin', that's at least worth $1MM in valuation right there.
kmfrk 16y ago
Nah, topics are tags; a question can have several topics, whereas a reddit thread can only belong to one category. (reddit terminology is not my forté.) On the negative side, I feel like some evil search engine optimizer when I plaster my questions with topics.

joeguilmette 16y ago

I'm most excited for the 'streaming cloud'. can't wait until i can pay $10/mo to access to all music on all my devices. yea theres rdio and a few others, but its not there yet. i hope it gets there soon. and i hope netflix lets me pay more to have access to better content.

andrewacove 16y ago
He mentions mobile phones in this context. I don't foresee the telecoms giving up bandwidth caps (or worse, metered bandwidth). There's no way I'm streaming media over the carrier networks to my phone if it's using up my bandwidth allotment or running against a meter.
- Raphael 16y ago
  A lot of people will pay for the convenience if the price is reasonable, say 10 cents per gigabyte.

revorad 16y ago

The most interesting technologies will be the ones no analyst or blogger can predict. Some examples from 2010: Coffeescript Rapportive Wordlens Hipmunk Blekko

kn0thing 16y ago
I like the way you think, revorad ;) I appreciate the hipmunk love.

whackedspinach 16y ago

I know this is all mostly software, seeing as it is techcrunch, but what about hardware? Isn't Lightpeak coming out this year? I feel like that will be a big deal.

losvedir 16y ago
Indeed. I'm thinking Kinect might be a big deal, once the open source hacking community really takes off.

axiom 16y ago

I know this probably won't happen in 2011, but I would kill for a phone/laptop that had wireless charging/sync that was practical (i.e. had a range of a few feet at least, and was decently fast.)

lawfulfalafel 16y ago

No mention of AMD fusion? Kind of a biased title for only web-based technologies.

samratjp 16y ago

The single most important technology that TechCrunch left out: JavaScript and HTML5 (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's more of a spec than a separate technology). More desktop like apps will enter the stage in time for cross mobile compatibility. Yehuda Katz's joining SproutCore is a very good sign of things to come. Node.js will hopefully make it on to production at a lot more startups.