Designing For The Future Web - Which BTW Is Portable
I admit I did change the title, by adding the portable part. But that really cover this eminent story better. The story begins by trying ot define that the future web is - portable. It support that with some numbers, which impress me a lot. Specially when considering @Asymco 2010 data of 5.5B mobile subscribtions of which 960M are 3G.
Below you see the part of the definitions. But the main story is about designing for it. Read the whole, it's good!
A post from Smashing Magazine Feed by James Gardner has the whole story. Here is a part:
...growing 3G coverage around the globe (around 21% by the end of 2010 according to Morgan Stanley).That makes 1.4B 3G subscribitions out of a population of 7B.
Below you see the part of the definitions. But the main story is about designing for it. Read the whole, it's good!
A post from Smashing Magazine Feed by James Gardner has the whole story. Here is a part:
What Is The Future Web?
Back in the old days: analogous Google queries would have taken 30 days. Image:dullhunk The one word that I hear more than any other at the moment is mobile. Mobile websites, mobile devices, mobile apps: the list seems to go on and on. In fact, a large swell of opinion says that the future Web is mobile.
But despite all this, focusing just on mobile isn’t the answer.
The way we access the Internet is changing, of that we can be certain. And in the short term, this does mean more mobile devices. But in the long term, we have to look a little wider. Thomas Husson, senior analyst for Forrester, summed it up nicely in his 2011 Mobile Trendsreport when he said, “The term mobile will mean a lot more than mobile phones.” In the long term, the word we should use instead of mobile is portable.
Why Portable? How Has the Internet Changed to Make It So?
First, the physical infrastructure of the Internet is spreading rapidly, so that our ability to access the Internet wherever we are grows daily. In the last 10 years, the number of Internet users has grown by 444.8% and now includes 28.7% of the population. That’s nearly 2 billion people, the majority of whom are in Asia. This growth is fuelled by investment in the underlying hardware that gives us access to the Internet: millions and millions of computers, millions of miles of cables, hundreds of thousands of wireless hotspots and, on top of all this, growing 3G coverage around the globe (around 21% by the end of 2010 according to Morgan Stanley).
Secondly, the way we use the Internet is changing. We are increasingly orienting our online experience around services rather than search engines. Services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are becoming the hub for our online life, and we are blending them to create our own unique Web of content: Facebook for our social life, LinkedIn for our professional life, Spotify for music, Netflix for television and film. We’re seeing a very different form of information consumption here, one in which we expect information to be pushed to us through our social circle, the people whom we trust. We’re moving away from the old paradigm of information retrieval, in which we are expected to seek information using search engines and links.