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November 28, 2006

Reference (old) web vs new (mobile) web

Our friend Rajesh Jain blogs about technology at the emergic.org blogsite. He wrote recently an interesting set of pieces around mobile internet. I especially liked the way he set our current frame of mind - our image of the current (fixed/wireline and broadband) internet as the "reference" web, while the new web will be mobile, being "now" and "near". Rajesh's blog "Now New Near Web" said for example:

"Think of the reference web as the one that has already been created for the PC world ? and for which Google has become the window. This web has been created for the big screen of the PC. The incremental web is about the present and future ? it is the real-time web. This is the web which will be increasingly built more for mobiles ? because it is a device through which access can happen anytime and from anywhere. Suddenly, it makes sense to create real-time information because there are users with two-way devices which can access this information with near-zero latency. I think of the incremental web as being about ?now, near, new.?? "

Very good thinking Rajesh, I will also start to use the Reference Web as a descriptive concept.

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