Internet Trends

[VCNetwork]

Has anyone really stopped to think of the internet trends?? I had to give a presentation on it for my communication class and it really make me think. We started with AOL, just and interface to help organize our web browsing. Then we all got DSL so we went to individual web browsers and email companies (yahoo, hotmail, ect). Also we began chatting via AIM or MSN messenger. Forums have alwasy been around for networking.

Now cluster all these things; Email, Chatting, Networking, and organization. What do you get? MYSPACE FACEBOOK LINKED IN

So what is the next big site to gather these common trends online. What is the primary utility of the internet and how can we capture it??

Just me thinking out loud, what do you guys think?

[akula]

Just me thinking out loud, what do you guys think?

sure..john doerr has a nice wrap up on where the net's trending and what's gonna come next. the future of the web is defined as the evolution from the "near web" to "evernet"...in other words, to define the future of the internet, it helps to understand that the internet is a collection of four webs...

Near Web. This is what you have sitting at your desk staring at your PC. There, winners here have already been largely decided, but if there were new ones, I'd bet they were some kind of an "identity management" company.

Far Web. This is the multimedia internet in your living room. Whilst this has not developed very well, we'll see a lot of winners here, including companies like brightcove.

Mobile Web. That's pretty obvious. Mobile internet access is in about the same state that near web access was 10 years ago. It's pretty hopeless. Expect new winners to emerge on mobile net - everything from domain registrars, search engines and online market places.

Ever Net. This is the kind of web you'd get in your car, automated retailing, clothing, shopping centers, military, a library etc. This is the internet found in different tools and applications. There will be a lot of winners here.

That's where the future of the internet is...it's lies in products and services that will appear on webs other than the "near web".