{"id":217,"date":"2008-05-02T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T00:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-05-02T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T00:55:47","slug":"where-is-the-new-new-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/where-is-the-new-new-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the New New Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleywatcher.com\/mt\/archives\/2008\/04\/incremental_is.php\">Tom Forenski<\/a> points to Jeff Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandhill.com\/opinion\/editorial.php?id=185\">Incremental Is Not Innovation<\/a>&#8221; piece. With more than $1bn invested in various startups &#8212; only a handful can be called as breakthrough. Last year, it was twitter.\u00a0\u00a0The last bust cycle produced a slew of collaboration tools based on RSS. In his writeup Jeff talks about the futility of Web 2.0 (the version number\u00a0exists, thanks to a marketing propaganda!) and me-too culture of startups around it.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a bigger picture, Web 2.0 has created a phenomenon that services can live elsewhere, and so\u00a0can the data. It has also created a new breed of entrepreneurs who are going to solve a newer set of problems in the continuing evolution of the overall Internet and computing landscape.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind some of the big problems to be solved are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public Information Overload: Average query on Google produces 100,000+ search results. The popular ones have 100,000+ <em>pages<\/em> of search results. Why do I need more than 3-5 pages of results?<\/li>\n<li>Untargeted advertising: Bulk of the ads are still unrelated. I was searching\/looking for a used Aeron chair, today. The best deal is on Craigslist. Why no one is connecting that dot? A person&#8217;s intent is very much monetizable and the field is\u00a0still green<\/li>\n<li>Compartmentalized information: If I&#8217;m browsing for a movie on Netflix, I cannot see the reviews of that movie from my buddies who are not on Netflix<\/li>\n<li>Missing reputation: Is that post\/comment about fixing unscruplous hedging of commodities coming from a person working in financial business or a wannabe?<\/li>\n<li>Private Information Overload: With 10,000+ digital family photos, I can&#8217;t search a thing. In my last job I had 5+ GB of PSTs at the time of quitting. Same goes for my slowly building archive of digital documents, tax returns and stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are very broad level categories of very large problems, each one can be further broken down into features.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Forenski points to Jeff Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;Incremental Is Not Innovation&#8221; piece. With more than $1bn invested in various startups &#8212; only a handful can be called as breakthrough. Last year, it was twitter.\u00a0\u00a0The last bust cycle produced a slew of collaboration tools based on RSS. In his writeup Jeff talks about the futility of Web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,11,95,102,105,109,110,115,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}