Opportunities 2006 - Usefulness

2006 is going to be a year where the creators of web technology have the opportunity to make their services better in terms of integration, usability, and usefulness.
- Ken Yarmosh, Looking towards 2006

I recently saw a man walking through the airport while on his cell. He had a hands-free device, where the microphone was located [...]

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Opportunities 2006 - Usability

2006 is going to be a year where the creators of web technology have the opportunity to make their services better in terms of integration, usability, and usefulness.
- Ken Yarmosh, Looking towards 2006

Usability - Web products and services must be dead simple to use
Have you ever tried to show a non-blogosphere, non-techy person how to [...]

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Opportunities 2006 - Integration

2006 is going to be a year where the creators of web technology have the opportunity to make their services better in terms of integration, usability, and usefulness.
- Ken Yarmosh, Looking towards 2006

Integration - Web 2.0 services must be seamless
Yahoo! has the opportunity to be the poster child of an integrated Web 2.0 world in [...]

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Looking towards 2006

2006 will not be a year of massive Web 2.0 adoption
The biggest lesson I’ve learned from my countless non-geek interactions this year is that we are far from reaching mainstream penetration of Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, RSS, tagging, social bookmarks, wikis, podcasts, etc.). Web 2.0 services are too disconnected, unintuitive, and often are impractical.
2006 will [...]

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