TechConsumer Article: The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough

[Tim]

Here is a nice watershed type of an article which starts to show that mobile surfing is the next big revolution to our society. Better dust off those geo names you've stashed... ...Full Article... (http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/07/16/the-next-big-thing-why-web-20-isnt-enough/)



We’re beginning to see the first threads of this next big idea. Pictures and Wikipedia articles are now linked to Google Earth. You can access information about a location, but it’s still at your desk. The real revolution will come when this information can be accessed completely and easily from a mobile device, while you’re at that location.

psst-psst I'm taking offers: geopress; geoworld; geovideo; geovideos; geovlog; geosphere; geofinder; geosex; geotracker; geodate; geolog; geoport; geovlogs
:coo2l:

[hedgefund]

Thanks for the find.

[Gerry]

Here is a nice watershed type of an article which starts to show that mobile surfing is the next big revolution to our society. Better dust off those geo names you've stashed... ...Full Article... (http://...Full%20Article...)



psst-psst I'm taking offers: geopress; geoworld; geovideo; geovideos; geovlog; geosphere; geofinder; geosex; geotracker; geodate; geolog; geoport; geovlogs
:coo2l:
BINGO!

Your phone will be your translator, your tour guide, and your payment source. Telecommunication companies will charge a flat rate for services, no roaming, take with you, overseas too, shared services from the telecommunication companies.

Why? Because the telecommunication giants finally realize that THIS is the future of the internet...portability and mobility. And all of these telecommunication companies stand to gain and gain enormously by banning together and combining their efforts and services. They all win and will win big with 3.5-4 billion phones currently in use and an estimated 7 billion by 2010.

Is it any wonder why Google and Yahoo want a piece of this pie? Google and Yahoo want to be sure that they are not left in the heap when people start surfing on the mobile internet. They figure they can keep their market share if they have their own telecommunications service with Google and Yahoo search options prominent. Why? Because Google and Yahoo know that in perhaps 2 years time and even less, a tremendous amount of their current services is provided to folks like you and me...sitting at our desk, on our butts, using our PC...will not be here.

We will be mobi(le) and that's where they want to be.

[Tim]

Link is fixed - thanks hedgefund...I'm posting a follow up (predated) which will fold right into this story

[Scandiman]

Nice read. The future of gps in a phone is exciting and scary at the same time (a bit Orwellian to say the least). Are you sure you want to sell geofinder or geotracker today? I like those almost as much as my own geolocate.mobi

[GijsZePa]

Nice read. The future of gps in a phone is exciting and scary at the same time (a bit Orwellian to say the least). Are you sure you want to sell geofinder or geotracker today? I like those almost as much as my own geolocate.mobi

gps in phone is the main reason why I bought .mobi domains...
The possibilities of that in combination with websites is incredible.

Martin

[Tim]

The GPS thing is already happening (http://www.geocaching.com/) and has been for sometime. I haven't dug into this phenomena any yet, but I've been a member of the site for at least 6 months. This article may just push me into doing the reading / research :vroam: .

As for selling some of my gem pile, sure I would. I've been more of a wholesaler than a retailer. I like the turnover. You inquirin', Scandi? I'll make you a heck of a deal :wink:

Nice read. The future of gps in a phone is exciting and scary at the same time (a bit Orwellian to say the least). Are you sure you want to sell geofinder or geotracker today? I like those almost as much as my own geolocate.mobi

[ezinaz]

psst-psst I'm taking offers: geopress; geoworld; geovideo; geovideos; geovlog; geosphere; geofinder; geosex; geotracker; geodate; geolog; geoport; geovlogs
:coo2l:


Those are very nice! I jumped on a few gems myself:
geoblog, geotags, mgps

[kiwi]

hello,
Great article!

I also have some :

EarthGPS.mobi
GlobalGPS.mobi
GEOGPS.mobi

[ezinaz]

We'll need more phones with GPS and a standard API to pull coordinates, plus more maps functionality on mobile (with more Mobile browsers that support javascript)

[noonoo1]

this is the reason i regged

GpsLive.mobi

I did look at the tags option but did not tack it

:biggrin:

[Tim]

I'd say you have three of the top ten...nicely done. It might've been your NP thread that sparked my regging those...

Those are very nice! I jumped on a few gems myself:
geoblog, geotags, mgps

[Gerry]

Question regarding GPS;

Isn't "gps" called something entirely different in a mobile phone?

And doesn't GPS go by some other acronym or letters in Europe?

And a follow up question/statement:

If I were the folks at Magellan or Garmin, I would be a little concerned about my market share slowly eroding away to cell phones. If cell phone are GPS enables and the signal strength is there, why would I want to carry a seperate GPS handheld unit to tell me where I am, where I am going, where I have been when, give me a map and directions, and keep me going in the right direction when I can do all that on my phone?

Plus on Garmin or Magellan you can't call the office while your sitting on the beach and tell your boss "Sorry, I'm sick and can't make it in today. Oh, that noise that sounds like waves? That's my head congestion...pretty bad huh?"

So I wonder if cell phones will eventually make hand held GPS devices and navigators obsolete...if not obsolete, certainly less needed and perhaps come down drastically in price to compete with cell phones.

Perhaps a Garmin or Megellan phone in the future?

[Dave]

The ones I have along these lines:

Geoblogger
Geobloggers
GPSSoftware
mBloggers
mDirections
mRoutes

[Tim]

Great perspective as always, Gerry.

My uneducated speculation would be that they'd lend their honed expertise / satellites to the phone co's / carriers under some kind of license agreement and maybe provide some chip hardware too. I'd see it like McAffee on a new PC.

Question regarding GPS;

Isn't "gps" called something entirely different in a mobile phone?

And doesn't GPS go by some other acronym or letters in Europe?

And a follow up question/statement:

If I were the folks at Magellan or Garmin, I would be a little concerned about my market share slowly eroding away to cell phones. If cell phone are GPS enables and the signal strength is there, why would I want to carry a seperate GPS handheld unit to tell me where I am, where I am going, where I have been when, give me a map and directions, and keep me going in the right direction when I can do all that on my phone?

Plus on Garmin or Magellan you can't call the office while your sitting on the beach and tell your boss "Sorry, I'm sick and can't make it in today. Oh, that noise that sounds like waves? That's my head congestion...pretty bad huh?"

So I wonder if cell phones will eventually make hand held GPS devices and navigators obsolete...if not obsolete, certainly less needed and perhaps come down drastically in price to compete with cell phones.

Perhaps a Garmin or Megellan phone in the future?

[Gerry]

Great perspective as always, Gerry.

My uneducated speculation would be that they'd lend their honed expertise / satellites to the phone co's / carriers under some kind of license agreement and maybe provide some chip hardware too. I'd see it like McAffee on a new PC.Good point, especially if they own or lease the satellite and the airwaves.

But I remember having a Garmin Trek for kayaking trips and excursions. But in a year or two, these seperate devices for this and for that would seem to be totally un-necessary.

So i would imagine you are correct that some sort of coop effort and even downloaded software to your phone for a fee making you phone essentially the navigator, router using Garmin or Magellan like programming.

Man, it is really, REALLY going to get interesting in the next couple of years.

Those not prepared (individuals, domainers, and companies) for the onslaught of technology and the advancement of mobi(le) technology are going to be blindsided and wonder, WTF just happened?

[Tim]

I think that RUGGED stand-alone gps units will still have a place in the market.

[Scandiman]

I think that RUGGED stand-alone gps units will still have a place in the market.
True. But what I think we'll see more of in the future is phones and GPS units talking with each other, either via cables or bluetooth. iPhone furthers out lust for the all in one device and this approach invariably has its pitfalls. A rugged GPS is hard to emulate in a cell phone.

[ezinaz]

True. But what I think we'll see more of in the future is phones and GPS units talking with each other, either via cables or bluetooth. iPhone furthers out lust for the all in one device and this approach invariably has its pitfalls. A rugged GPS is hard to emulate in a cell phone.

Respectfully disagree here...there will be a large market for GPS phones...rugged GPS phones. One device is better than two.

http://www.mphone.co.uk/rugged_tough_phone.html

[Scandiman]

Respectfully disagree here...there will be a large market for GPS phones...rugged GPS phones. One device is better than two.

http://www.mphone.co.uk/rugged_tough_phone.html

I agree there will be a market for gps phones, but I'm not aware of any gps phones that comes close to products like these:

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/compare.do?cID=161&compare=compare&compareProduct=169&compareProduct=183&compareProduct=350&compareProduct=351

These units aren't "water resistant" they're water proof. Heck, they even float! "Rugged" takes on a whole new meaning when talking GPS.

[Tim]

^^I stand by my rugged opinion :)

[GijsZePa]

We'll need more phones with GPS and a standard API to pull coordinates, plus more maps functionality on mobile (with more Mobile browsers that support javascript)

True,

GPS on phones is already existing, but there need to be a way to use the coordinates within your websites....
SO client --> server --> client for adding information to it. Second problem is the content. Nice to have the coordinates...but if you don't have them in your database... :rolleyes2:

Martin

[bricio]

thanks for the article Tim