Mobile and Device Connectivity - Entrepreneur27 Technology Symposium Final Thoughts
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Monday, January 30, 2006
Can your website connect to every mobile device or to your company's live inventory system? How about your customer's neural network? After thinking about what I saw yesterday at Stanford with the nine entrepreneur's under the age of 27, I was struck with the percentage of applications that were connected in some way to another device. Last year I saw Howard Rheingold at SXSW and he spoke about cell phones being the most prevalent computing device. Think about it. As Rheingold pointed out, "do you see more computers of cell phones?"
Currently, there are web applications launching every day that focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing. Many of these applications already include mobile functions.
So, if you are a company trying to connect to an audience under the age of 27, having mobile or other device connectivity is essential.
Check out further details about the applications featured at the
E27 symposium.
What's next? How about a web app where I can call a phone number, speak a voice command, and then have the voice command interact with the site (for example, translated into a task on my to do list). Calendars, to-do list and social applications would be more useful if they would adopt this type of idea.
(photo from NeuroSky.com)
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