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My opinion: - Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps. - Photo/Video sharing services .... they went mobil

My opinion: - Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps. - Photo/Video sharing services .... they went mobile, big time - CRM ... I think twitter, facebook and internet outrage are changing that pretty rapidly - Web office apps ... I (still) don't get the sense there's any major urge to move to web office apps, but obviously the 800 pound gorilla in that space is (went?) web - Online learning ... Kahn Academy - New payment methods ... Square, NFC et al - The web os ... kind of became redundant with the explosion of mobile and tablet, but Chrome OS might end up mattering - Application and data hosting happened in a huge way lol

jmspring 15y ago
re: - Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps. Mobile and apps certainly have helped. But, there is still a problem of knowing what urls (in the case of a browser) or sites to search or which apps to get to help out. It seems like there should be a better way of just "getting information" based on location/interests/curiousities...
- mbell 15y ago
  You mean google?
  - jmspring 15y ago
    Google may be an answer, but it is still oriented towards typing in search terms, maps, etc. Is there a better way to package this up as a ui/service?
    - uxp 15y ago
      Seems like you are looking for an App Store for SaaS apps, like the Chrome Web Store, but more general purpose and less Chrome specific. Edit: as much as I despise the term, Social App Store. You would need algorithms like Pandora uses, that tracks how often and for how long a user uses certain kinds of apps, and through categorization, tailor a "Recommended" page to popular apps in the same category, as well as ones that "friends" use on a regular basis.
- salemh 15y ago
  Semantic web. Hunch is trying, other startups as well. You need so much "opt in, we will find cool stuff (after 200 questions)." The big boys of online data preferences who Could do these things would be Google, perhaps FaceBook (which still brings up ridiculous unrelated ads to my interests, however, I don't "click" any apps or "like" many pages out of privacy). More on FaceBook, even my "prolific" friends (checkins, 200-400 friends, likes and friends with 100 or so movies, bands, apps, etc.) still don't click ads. NetFlix seems, after 4 years, of finally getting a semblance of "interests" down. That is quite a bit of data, time length, and me, the user actually rating the movies I watch in a semi-diligent manner. I would, in fact love to log onto Google, or wherever, see my "bored" category of movies I may like to watch online, at the theater, local events going on that evening, something coming up tomorrow and all somewhat related to what I would enjoy, not just "pushing" or scraping a bunch of different calenders / pooling app info together. Very difficult problem.
  - covercash 15y ago
    How about Apple? They have access or the potential to access a whole bunch of info through that little touch screen life portal everyone clings to on a daily basis. Add in iCloud and their Nuance partnership and you have something pretty interesting. "Hey iPhone, is there anything fun to do after work?" It grabs your location, sees you have a late meeting blocked off from 6-7, sees you were watching Transformers 3 trailers a few days ago, sees your buddy Mike tweeted "Transformers 3 looks pretty rad, I definitely want to see that". It now has an approximate time and location, a pretty good idea of what you're interested in (both long term and short term) based on app data, and can see if any of this aligns with your social graph... Would you be interested in seeing Transformers 3 at 7:30 with Mike? "Yes, send him an invitation." iMessage sent with all the details, when you get a yes from him, Fandango launches and you buy your ticket, it gets added to your calendar so you get a reminder after your meeting, maps out directions, etc. It's a stretch but if anyone can make harvesting that much of your personal info look appealing, it's definitely Apple.
gcb 15y ago
Stopped reading on "- Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps." How is the answer "mobile" the answer to anything? it's like hearing microsoft saying "cloud" About purpose-specific apps, how this even get close to simplified browsing? It's the opposite! What to read website X on mobile? wait 7 months until they launch an app. And if they already have an app, you will probably have to go to the desktop to do something trivial (like adding a video to a list on youtube under android... you will have to favorite it so you can find, go to the desktop, move the video to a list) My mobile browser for sure does not make anything simpler! Took me several minutes to import a bookmarklet to change the background to black and text to white on the current page. It involved setting up a webserver on another computer because it could't open pages on the local memory.
- benologist 15y ago
  Purpose-specific apps give them what they want without the hassle of the web - browser incompatibilities, plugins, codecs, address bars that might as well not exist, malware, scams. Remember that time a blog accidentally outranked Facebook for 'facebook login' on Google and people couldn't find Facebook anymore? The web is hard for a lot of people.
  - gcb 15y ago
    And instead now they have 200 unofficial craigslist apps that do god-knows to your phone. We are back to the BBS days, everyone's downloading binary files!
blantonl 15y ago
I realize you are posting your opinion, but you posted examples of past execution, NOT future innovation. I would argue that each of your "opinions" are ripe for disruption. Disruption on the scale of displacement happens all the time. And mark my words, it will happen to each of your opinions listed above.
- benologist 15y ago
  Of course .... not accusing anyone of having solved those problems forever, not to mention tomorrow's answers and tomorrow's problems may not be anything like today's (or in this case, 2008s).
jorangreef 15y ago
I'm tackling the web OS... And so I don't think it's going to be Chrome OS, also because it has to work on any kind of device to be the web OS not just a Chromebook and too many partnership deals would need to be signed for Chrome OS to spread as quickly as the web OS needs to spread.

jmspring 15y ago

re: - Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps. Mobile and apps certainly have helped. But, there is still a problem of knowing what urls (in the case of a browser) or sites to search or which apps to get to help out. It seems like there should be a better way of just "getting information" based on location/interests/curiousities...

mbell 15y ago
You mean google?
- jmspring 15y ago
  Google may be an answer, but it is still oriented towards typing in search terms, maps, etc. Is there a better way to package this up as a ui/service?
  - uxp 15y ago
    Seems like you are looking for an App Store for SaaS apps, like the Chrome Web Store, but more general purpose and less Chrome specific. Edit: as much as I despise the term, Social App Store. You would need algorithms like Pandora uses, that tracks how often and for how long a user uses certain kinds of apps, and through categorization, tailor a "Recommended" page to popular apps in the same category, as well as ones that "friends" use on a regular basis.
salemh 15y ago
Semantic web. Hunch is trying, other startups as well. You need so much "opt in, we will find cool stuff (after 200 questions)." The big boys of online data preferences who Could do these things would be Google, perhaps FaceBook (which still brings up ridiculous unrelated ads to my interests, however, I don't "click" any apps or "like" many pages out of privacy). More on FaceBook, even my "prolific" friends (checkins, 200-400 friends, likes and friends with 100 or so movies, bands, apps, etc.) still don't click ads. NetFlix seems, after 4 years, of finally getting a semblance of "interests" down. That is quite a bit of data, time length, and me, the user actually rating the movies I watch in a semi-diligent manner. I would, in fact love to log onto Google, or wherever, see my "bored" category of movies I may like to watch online, at the theater, local events going on that evening, something coming up tomorrow and all somewhat related to what I would enjoy, not just "pushing" or scraping a bunch of different calenders / pooling app info together. Very difficult problem.
- covercash 15y ago
  How about Apple? They have access or the potential to access a whole bunch of info through that little touch screen life portal everyone clings to on a daily basis. Add in iCloud and their Nuance partnership and you have something pretty interesting. "Hey iPhone, is there anything fun to do after work?" It grabs your location, sees you have a late meeting blocked off from 6-7, sees you were watching Transformers 3 trailers a few days ago, sees your buddy Mike tweeted "Transformers 3 looks pretty rad, I definitely want to see that". It now has an approximate time and location, a pretty good idea of what you're interested in (both long term and short term) based on app data, and can see if any of this aligns with your social graph... Would you be interested in seeing Transformers 3 at 7:30 with Mike? "Yes, send him an invitation." iMessage sent with all the details, when you get a yes from him, Fandango launches and you buy your ticket, it gets added to your calendar so you get a reminder after your meeting, maps out directions, etc. It's a stretch but if anyone can make harvesting that much of your personal info look appealing, it's definitely Apple.

gcb 15y ago

Stopped reading on "- Simplified browsing has happened ala tablets, mobiles etc, especially purpose-specific apps." How is the answer "mobile" the answer to anything? it's like hearing microsoft saying "cloud" About purpose-specific apps, how this even get close to simplified browsing? It's the opposite! What to read website X on mobile? wait 7 months until they launch an app. And if they already have an app, you will probably have to go to the desktop to do something trivial (like adding a video to a list on youtube under android... you will have to favorite it so you can find, go to the desktop, move the video to a list) My mobile browser for sure does not make anything simpler! Took me several minutes to import a bookmarklet to change the background to black and text to white on the current page. It involved setting up a webserver on another computer because it could't open pages on the local memory.

benologist 15y ago
Purpose-specific apps give them what they want without the hassle of the web - browser incompatibilities, plugins, codecs, address bars that might as well not exist, malware, scams. Remember that time a blog accidentally outranked Facebook for 'facebook login' on Google and people couldn't find Facebook anymore? The web is hard for a lot of people.
- gcb 15y ago
  And instead now they have 200 unofficial craigslist apps that do god-knows to your phone. We are back to the BBS days, everyone's downloading binary files!

blantonl 15y ago

I realize you are posting your opinion, but you posted examples of past execution, NOT future innovation. I would argue that each of your "opinions" are ripe for disruption. Disruption on the scale of displacement happens all the time. And mark my words, it will happen to each of your opinions listed above.

benologist 15y ago
Of course .... not accusing anyone of having solved those problems forever, not to mention tomorrow's answers and tomorrow's problems may not be anything like today's (or in this case, 2008s).

jorangreef 15y ago

I'm tackling the web OS... And so I don't think it's going to be Chrome OS, also because it has to work on any kind of device to be the web OS not just a Chromebook and too many partnership deals would need to be signed for Chrome OS to spread as quickly as the web OS needs to spread.