Kevin Krejci's Scrapbook

A collection of artifacts I've found on the Web, about the Web, and a few other things.

Posts tagged technology

Nov 11

“#roadmapconf Whether it was the steam engine, shipping lanes, railroads, cars and highways or the Internet — each increased our connectedness and in the process, redefined and compressed time and distance. The impact was felt in how we lived, worked, created and consumed. With the rise of anywhere computing, we are seeing time and distance compress even further.” Connectedness and us: Some takeaways from GigaOM RoadMap — Tech News and Analysis

Nov 6

In the old days, Amazon sold books, Google was a search engine, Facebook was a social network and Apple sold computers. But that’s not the case anymore. Google and Apple now sell phones. Amazon has gotten into the server business. Apple sells music. Facebook and Amazon provide online payment services. And that’s just the beginning. (via The Competition Among Google, Amazon, Facebook And Apple : NPR)

Sites like Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, Instapaper, Snip.it, Clipboard, and Curisma, among others, all allow their users to decide what aspects of the web (text, media, etc.) are worth saving and sharing, instead of browsing the web from Google, or even Facebook for that matter. Because many of these networks have asymmetric follow/follower models, and because users can “tune” whom they are following, users’ feeds could increase in relevance as items are retweeted or repinned. These networks allow for self-expression, and in doing so, re-sort and re-shape the web we see, and that is a very big shift away from traditional search toward social discovery. (via The Rise Of Pinterest And The Shift From Search To Discovery | TechCrunch)