San Francisco - The web 2.0 Summit , which wraps here yesterday, has attracted some of the biggest in the industry including, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, Adobe along with media companies like General electric, comcast etc...
Mobile, Mobile, Mobile.
The last few year have seen dramatic change as we shifted our lives to the Internet, but now it's all about mobile. If you don't have one yet, you will soon. Smartphone technology is ramping faster than any other technology. More and More people are switching to smart phone devices and it is all happening in a recession. Talking about recession hum, Apple just reported record revenue and sales. Google said its revenue rose to 7% year to year, and Microsoft just launch windows 7 which will dramatically increase sales.
New ways to pay
Is it possible to say that innovations as young as the ATM are already becoming obsolete? That's what Scott Thompson president of Ebay's electronic payment service, paypal thinks. He came to announce the opening of Paypal to outside developers, as Apple did with the iphone, so they will be new way to send money believe me. Developer can build things as simple as payment apps for social networkking web sites, or payroll for foreign country. You can pay for items from your phone in your living room.
TV
Cable TV wants to open up too. the old way Subscribe and get access is slowly but surely dying. The new way Subscribe, and watch any show in the lineup on the internetat anytime, whenever whatever is coming. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts announced that a web 2.0 for its 24 million subscriber via its fancast website. They would have access by the end of the year.
Search
Microsoft 's Bing search engine which is hopping to give rigorous search competition to Google for the first time in years, announced non exclusive deals with both twitter and facebook to provide search results At Bing.com/twitter the conversation can be viewed and searched. Additionally, tweets will be part of the search results. Microsoft showed an example of a search on Singer John Legend, showing a pictureof the performer followed by two of his recent Twitter to include its updates in Bing search results.
In a near future, maybe we won't need a remote control for the TV, keys for your car, ATM cards to carry around, Access card for work, Web cam on your Pc etc...all you will have to do is grab your phone.