[Web4lib] Next new thing?

Ross Singer ross.singer at library.gatech.edu
Sat Jul 16 10:24:31 EDT 2005


I wasn't going to weigh in on this, since predictions on the "big
new thing" are usually so inaccurate (especially by me), but I
think there is a large trend now towards personalization,
localization and contextualization.  my.yahoo.com is taking this
approach, A9 (as was discussed in another thread) allows you to
add search result "contexts", google.com/ig, etc.

I would also have lump Firefox's Greasemonkey extension in here as
it allows you to view the web as you want to.

We seems to be moving towards a "live globally, think locally" model.

Sign me up.
-Ross.

On Fri, July 15, 2005 5:16 pm, Sloan, Bernie said:
> First we had blogging, and then podcasting.
>
> What's the next new up-and-coming thing along these lines?
>
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