What will come after web apps and social sites?

Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by sanj on Monday July 30, 2007 @10:29AM (#37664)

Only when location it is relevant.

I'd hazard that 95% of the time that I search, I don't care about location. Pretty much everyone will ship to where I am.

Here's the thing: I believe that location-based apps are more about pushing local ads to users than they are about providing services. While that remains the case, they will be a nonstarter.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by nanijoe on Monday July 30, 2007 @10:18PM (#37814)

I get pretty pissed off when my google search results come out in dutch just because I am sitting in an airport in Holland.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by rms on Monday July 30, 2007 @06:16PM (#37789)

I'm looking forward to location based social networking. In the loopt trials, it was said that friends with loopt discovered that they were within a couple blocks of many of their friends even when they didn't expect it. I think if all my friends were running loopt or something similar it could change behavior in a positive way.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by ph0rque on Monday July 30, 2007 @11:42AM (#37685)

True, but there's a blurry line between local ads pushed on users and local services provided to users.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by sanj on Monday July 30, 2007 @12:19PM (#37691)

It only seems blurry when you're pushing ads; I think that users find it pretty clear.

I'd suggest that an example for "non-ad services" is CraigsList.

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