On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
At some time in the future and when a new paradigm for the user
interface is
conceived, we may not longer have the end user “typing” a URL, the
DNS or
something similar will still be in the background providing name to
address
mapping but there will be no more monetary value associated with it
or that
value will be transferred to something else.
We're already there. It's called "Google".
In the the vast majority of cases I have seen, people don't type
domain names, they search the web. When they do type a domain name,
they usually type it into the Google search box.
Partially true for web access, very rarely true for email. I type in
email domains much more often than I do web domains. And now email
addresses are becoming URIs for log ins, SIP calling, video
conferencing, etc.
It's also interesting how in some ways twitter and its relatives have
been sending
URLs backwards. If you type in
http://www.americafree.tv
you may have some idea what you are getting, but if you type in
http://bit.ly/w5aM4
you have none. (These two URLs go, or at least they should go, to the
same place.
Who knows if that will be true in a year, or 5, or 10.)
Here is a place IMO where a better UI and URI philosophy would really
help.
Regards
Marshall
(Alternatively, they type everything into the browser's "address
bar", which is really a
"search-the-web bar" in most browsers.)
(Replace "Google" with search engine of your choice.)
-- Ben
