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disruptions

10.11.09

Looming Disruptions to the Software Industry BIG, Semantic Web, Software, Software Development, Unified Communications, User Interaction, app store, blog, disruptions, google wave, jason kolb, social networks, technology | Comments Off
I view a major shift in technology, like the one that I see materializing right now with Google Wave (the protocol), as a huge object crashing into a an existing landscape. There's this massive change right in the middle, a new space that has to be filled, and then all these fissures spidering out from the main event where the rest of the world is affected by that event--new spaces that must be filled with something. One of the fun things about technology disruptions is trying to figure out what the landscape will look like after the main event. It's those ...