The Next Killer App

Every now and then one comes across a statement that rings true to one's own experiences and convictions and bears repeating, verbatim.   Here's what Ben Hunt recently wrote on his blog called Web Design From Scratch.

The next killer app isn't an app.

It will be a new networking platform that builds on today's world-wide web and makes possible new generations of more powerful and useful applications.

My vision is of a next-generation web that is just as simple and flexible as web 1.0, but more interconnected and powerful.

At its core, it will incorporate a universe of connections that reflects the real-life links between people, organisations, services, products, web sites, and other entities.

I couldn't agree more.  Ben, thanks for saying it so well.

Comments

[B.L.]

The fictional "matrix" is really not that far off in our world. Will the connections through technology make us lose the real connections with people?

[Vivek Hutheesing]

This matrix you speak of has already arrived. There is extensive evidence now, even since Robert Putnam's analysis in Bowling Alone, that electronic communications have marginalized face to face communications. The web has played a role in this, but it is far from the only culprit, and deserves much credit for the many good things it has done.

What Ben says above resonates closely with what rBlock is going to do -- namely, leverage the real-life connections in our communities that have steadily attenuated over the last few decades.

Thanks for your comment!