All I Want For Christmas Is My Web
November 26th, 2009 admin
I’m not really comfortable making broad technology predictions, but I’ve run across two things recently that perfectly illustrate for me the next generation of the web. Some of us are already living it — those of us that use offerings like Twitter or Hunch, or any service that instead of forcing us to search for information asks for our interests, preferences or even location, then delivers it. The next-gen version of the web will consist of services that tell us what we want to know at the exact moment we want to know it — possibly even if we don’t ask. We’re getting ever closer to such personalized, push delivery of information via the web. Case in point: Last night I started trying to compile a list of deal…

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