A very impressive feature on sites is live chat. IT shows the site owner cares enough to staff someone there. However i am offended when it is one of those chatbots. it hurts the user experience because i feel like im being treated like an idiot. either real live chat or no chat at all. No Soup for you!
For the last few months, I’ve been going back and forth about desktoptwo.com with the founder, Josh Rand. First of all, I love the platform, I think it’s the future of The internet. if you look back at my old posts, my very first blog post around 3 or 4 years ago was about desktop enabled internet or internet enabled desktop. Josh put it to action. Desktoptwo allows people to use their web based virtual computer complete with MSFT office. It has the power of bringing internet to millions of people that can’t afford a fancy computer or have to use one in the library. It also will enable millions of people to download porn without it being on their computer. Truly revolutionary, seriously and they have 200,000 users while still in beta without a single $1 of marketing…Josh is also trying to recruit me but that’s another story. I told him I have to pass as I don’t believe in amway and I already have plenty of toilet paper but I wished him goodluck with his new venture.
The next great question, Google or Microsoft. Is the future of
computing about desktop computing with Internet fused into it or internet computing with desktop elements. In the early days, Internet speed was slow and computing was all about the computer, then it became
about networking, mainly corporate and educational, then the Internet came in full force and suddenly it was Internet only. Occasionally, you saw an application that allowed itself to be connected to the Internet but with the exception of outlook and email tools almost never used. The internet has seemingly became a GooglePlex being about to do
just about everything online - or offline as created mainly by
Microsoft….the question is what is the next step?
The next step, I think at least, is this, the two most popular tools
are instant messaging and email … the core of computing will be
around communication based on applications - sure you can access them wholly on the Internet however the key will always be on the system - the reason: internet always has and always will go down and people always will travel - therefore I propose the main system revolve around
a communication device that logs all email / messenger and file
transfer communication between people, accessible via simple search, you want to learn about a person, pull up their profiles from 5 different sites and your communication history and add in notepad and you have a little slice of history of all of your friends…
Social Networking will be tied into the tool but different than it is
today. There is some value visceral based networking such as myspace and there is value in more in depth platforms - the most important component however is a) ability to find friends b) ability to link
through their friends and c) search - all will be able to occur through the same tool …
When it comes to applications such as word processing and spreadsheets - the key will always be on the system, 1 person, 1 creation, however using this same communication center, users will be able to collaborate
on different projects, the applications based mainly on computers for stability purposes but fused into the Internet so it is dynamic - similar to how AIM works.
Users will be able to have one single system for creating and storing creations as well as communicating about them and distributing the final product. Of course as soon as this product is complete it will be
need to be modded, updated, changed and added on to - ala Open Source - right now there are all sorts of open source platforms for search, messaging, networking, browing etc…the future will combine them in a
way that saves time and money for all involved…my 2 cents, whats yours?
