I was thinking about this earlier today: This kind of service, although superb for the user, poses some serious questions to companies who develop web-apps.
How do you monetize your service (and keep it available) if the future of web interaction relies on "pulling" your service rather than bringing visitors to your site. For instance, Ubiquity lets you throw twitters, embed maps, snag ratings from sites.... these are all fantastic abilities. I'm already using the darn thing and i've only had it installed for 2 hours. But for the providers of these services (maps / twits / ratings) what does it mean when a new generation of services actually snags your content and cuts out the source of potential profits (visitors). Do you have to embed your revenue generators (say advertisements) into your content? Or do you hope that by providing ubiquitous inclusion on your content you will somehow grow your total eye-share and visitor numbers? As micro apps get better and better at pulling info from the semantic web, does the very idea of "visiting a site" become obsolete? And if so, where can you generate a revenue stream? Food for thought. We're moving away from the "Paged Web" faster than some expected. pauric wrote: > Aza Raskin presents very intriguing interaction paradigm for the > browser, similar to his previous work with Enzo for the OS; instead of > you going to services, the application pulls those services in to your > workflow via a natural language command line. > http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ > He's created a nice video demoing the app > > I wonder what people's thoughts are on (power-user orientated?) > command line interfaces when compared to the visually heavy designs at > the other end of the spectrum, e.g. http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/ > > exciting times! > regards/pauric > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
