New Trends In Online Traffic
New Trends In Online Traffic: "While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information."
Exciting and much anticipated. In fact, I see this growing to an extent where people's only application of use will be a browser. And all the other apps of daily use would be available online and free. No more paying even for a single piece of software, and there'II be just two things that we'II have to pay for - hardware and bandwidth. I see this happening already with the Web 2.0 (good read: The State of Web 2.0). Things like Ajax are sprouting up fast (just like any other tech buzz) but this time its here to stay, or at least here to leave a significant impact and a ground work for the next bigger things to come. Ajax Office is one such example.
So how would companies make money? For a layman with basic needs, paying for hardware and bandwidth will be enough. But there are things that would require fees / subscriptions. Things like professional support services, online media and sometimes the content itself (specialized and filtered, not the Wikipedia types). But there are things that needs a major revamp, especially the UI and navigability.
So I see it boiling down to the Linus Torvald's principle of life, as he puts in his autobiography - Just for fun. According to him there are three things that have meaning for life, which are motivating factors for everything in one's life and determines the progress path for anything and everything in life. These are survival, social and entertainment, and the implication is that the meaning of the life is to reach at the third stage. Every technology follows same path as well. Initially Internet was limited to defense localities - was a support feature then, meant for survival, now it has become a social thing..and slowly we are reaching the final stage of the game. It has started to become a mere means of our entertainment.
It feels good to be at this stage of the transition and would be awesome if to be able to contribute in any ways.
Exciting and much anticipated. In fact, I see this growing to an extent where people's only application of use will be a browser. And all the other apps of daily use would be available online and free. No more paying even for a single piece of software, and there'II be just two things that we'II have to pay for - hardware and bandwidth. I see this happening already with the Web 2.0 (good read: The State of Web 2.0). Things like Ajax are sprouting up fast (just like any other tech buzz) but this time its here to stay, or at least here to leave a significant impact and a ground work for the next bigger things to come. Ajax Office is one such example.
So how would companies make money? For a layman with basic needs, paying for hardware and bandwidth will be enough. But there are things that would require fees / subscriptions. Things like professional support services, online media and sometimes the content itself (specialized and filtered, not the Wikipedia types). But there are things that needs a major revamp, especially the UI and navigability.
So I see it boiling down to the Linus Torvald's principle of life, as he puts in his autobiography - Just for fun. According to him there are three things that have meaning for life, which are motivating factors for everything in one's life and determines the progress path for anything and everything in life. These are survival, social and entertainment, and the implication is that the meaning of the life is to reach at the third stage. Every technology follows same path as well. Initially Internet was limited to defense localities - was a support feature then, meant for survival, now it has become a social thing..and slowly we are reaching the final stage of the game. It has started to become a mere means of our entertainment.
It feels good to be at this stage of the transition and would be awesome if to be able to contribute in any ways.
