Scott Fisher

Technology Review: The Future of The Web

Jonathan Abrams Founder of Socialzr and Friendster; San Francisco, CA:

"In five to ten years, we will all have chips in our brains. When you look at someone's face on the street, your Google Brain software will automatically call up every embarrassing photo of them from ancient websites such as Flickr, Facebook, and MySpace; list all mutual friends; and remind you of the person's annotated bio. As a response to the perceived slowness and verbosity of antiquated services like Twitter, people will send everyone they know nanobursts of information about anything they might do or think before they actually do or think it. Every website, blog, and social-networking profile will include an aggregated feed from every other website, blog, and social-networking service, resulting in an exponential and infinite length of repeated content on every possible site, overloading our brain chips and causing frequent nosebleeds and occasional cerebral hemorrhage."

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From Digitalmediawire:

"AOL to Host Web-Exclusive Mark Burnett Reality Series"

New York - America Online announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with Mark Burnett Productions, creators of "Survivor" and "The Apprentice," to produce a reality treasure hunt series that will air exclusively on its AOL.com website. Clues to the treasure in "Gold Rush!" will be placed throughout the AOL network, on websites including AOL.com, AIM.com, Moviefone.com and MapQuest.com, while the series will track the real-world challengers. "The world is changing and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network," said Burnett. "With the volume of people able to watch content on their computers between 9am to 5pm, it could very well become the new primetime." AOL did not provide a launch date for the Web series.
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