What is Web 3.0 likely to be?
(my question)
Tim O’Reilly “Meaningless. Most transformative when we stop typing. 411 services Google, gestural interfaces. Each cell phone with an
intertial sensor. Instrumentation of people. Insurance based on GPS. Computers learn from us by what we do in our interactions
in the daily world.”
Tim Bray “Essentially unpredictable. e.g. Twitter. Don’t know but really exciting.”
Other Statments
Ian Murdock “A layer of abstraction is great until you really need to know what is going on underneath it”
Tim O’Reilly “Proprietary databases are the competitive advantage of the future. Critical mass of buyers and sellers made ebay a lock in. No one can touch it. All of the mapping
sites still use NavTeq.”
Tim O’Reilly “Google Competing to give you the result in line, rather than passing you off to another site. Google are starting to compete with their own users.”
Rich Green “Value of a platform is the ratio of the lines of code you write compared to the lines of code in the platform. Web 2.0 has that. What is the Web 2.75 Petstore?”
Tim O’Reilly “Web 1.5 was the Dot.com crash.”
Rich Green “Bill Joy. Where ever you work, most of the smart people are elsewhere”.
Tim O’Reilly “The architecture of participation”.
Rich Green “Scoop up the open source work of others and monetise it. Sun are looking at paying people.”
Tim O’Reilly “Horatio Alger said “Go west young man. You have to find something new.”
Tim O’Reilly “We are coming to the end of cheap outsourcing. Indian outsourcers seeing only 3-4 years of having a wage advantage.”
Tim O’Reilly “Users do their thing out of their own self-interest. “
Tim Bray “You can make money from the long tail but may be not in the long tail.” and Tim O’Reilly “Each long tail is attached to a very big dog”
