DISQUS

ChangeForge | Ken Stewart · 1 year ago

Louis, I have long marveled at the ever increasing abilities of technology. I just had the pleasure of sitting in on a lunch and learn Wednesday with the CTO for IBM's Federal Division. A really great talk on what's happening out there in the technology space and IBM sees from their level. It was amazing to hear and the one thing that everyone is talking about was what IBM is terming as 'consumability': The need/want of a business to consume data, but not have to worry with all the technology know-how to make it happen.

In your example with the iPhone, I think this is the premier example of a company creating an interface into an ecosystem that speaks to the concept of consumability. All you and I want is the end result of being connected, and we want it 1) everywhere (mobile), 2) from a single, easy-to-use source (unified), and 3) don't want to have to haggle with the details (transparent).

Great thoughts on this.

Wayne Sutton · 1 year ago

Great post Louis, and you're right about the future of soical media. Your last statement really sums it up.

"The world of social media is going to be unified, transparent and mobile (or location independent). Those that can best capitalize on the unification of data, and avoid the traditional walled garden approach will be the winners."

iankennedy · 1 year ago

+ 1!!

Today's mobile web is like early days of the internet. Just like AOL or Compuserve was you main interface to the net in the early 90's, your carrier and device stack determines what you see on the mobile internet. I look forward to the day when the training wheels come off and each user has more control over their experience.

Today, it mostly doesn't matter which platform (Mac or PC) or browser (IE or Firefox) you use to access your favorite website. Standards are converging and the experience is mostly the same. I look forward to the same happening on the mobile web, it'll be driven by social networks that need to reach scale to succeed and will break down walls to do so.

CraigK · 1 year ago

I agree with Wayne and your sum up of the future. Everything is going to be more mobile, and more independent. With increasing technologies in smart phones, they are going to revolutionize technology the way laptops revolutionized the computer industry away from desktops.

Craig
www.budgetpulse.com

jeffisageek · 1 year ago

great post louis. I couldnt agree more. I am finding myself more and more using my phone for my social media routine. twitter, brightkite, friendfeed, facebook...ect ect. All have easy to use mobile apps which help me when I am on the go or away from the computer.

muthu2 · 1 year ago

Really i agree this activities.now a days very fast to reach any messages to directly into the peoples mean
that's the one of the way is mobile.this is great marketing and sharing media also.its quite nice.........
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Muthu

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Meryn Stol · 10 months ago

I like the piece. My take on the future of social media: "Better than Real-life". This will be the guiding principle. Of course social media can't beat "air" and physical proximity for every use case, but it will do so in increasingly more areas. The clever mediated interaction models will keep growing with audio and video always at your disposal.

Meryn Stol · 10 months ago

The reason we turn to social media is that for some use cases, it's better than "real-life" interaction. Geographical distance is no concern, and conversation can develop asynchronously. Then we have conversation-discovery through search, etc, etc.

James Fridley · 10 months ago

While I agree with your three key points, I am worried that the advent of greater transparency does the opposite of what one would assume. Much in the same way as Leo Laporte suggested that people can no longer aim to collect all the information themselves, transparency means that while the information is available, those that have the time to ensure that the information is valid become more rare. In such as fashion (as was done in WWII) the shear volume of information is then the barrier to be overcome.

James Fridley · 10 months ago

And so again this argument all comes back to effective filtering (what ever that may be) by peers that we trust (for what ever reason), just so long as it is not just the number of twitter followers...

Gregg · 10 months ago

Do you know when the podcast will be up?