- Mar 21, 2013
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Website access is becoming appliance access.
Few large companies control 99% of online traffic.
Social networks are 99% noise.
Getting a new site seen takes months. Unless you spend big $, just like in traditional media.
There is no longer much difference between the Internet and traditional media. Large corps have taken over.
People no longer run their own blogs, they just publish on Facebook or Twitter. There is no grass roots publishing any more.
Sites are all standardized to Google's specs. No longer can a crazy site from Geocities appear anywhere on serps. Sites all look pretty much the same, produced to suit one corporation's demands.
The Internet I knew in the 1990's is dead already. But the question is, is the larger Internet dying for individuals and becoming a communications network for large corporation's applications?
Smart phones, smart TV's, websites running as applications in these devices, people accessing these using a TV remote control instead of a keyboard. Only content published by individuals is on Twitter or FB using their phones (very limited).
Basically we've gone back to large media. Individuals no longer yield any power on the Internet. It's been that way for a long time, but I've come to realize this more clearly recently.
We're all working for a few large corporations online. Those who get into the Internet today have no idea how free we were in the 1990's.
A handful of large corps coordinate the Internet. You only get seen if you shine through on their proprietary platforms. Individuals are gone. No independent search engine exists, no competitor to Google exists in fact, Facebook and Twitter command a large fraction of the rest of traffic. Amazon and a couple of others take the rest of the traffic.
The Internet as we knew it is dying or is already dead. It's now a closed system run by a few corporations, a lot like AOL and Prodigy were back in the day.
Few large companies control 99% of online traffic.
Social networks are 99% noise.
Getting a new site seen takes months. Unless you spend big $, just like in traditional media.
There is no longer much difference between the Internet and traditional media. Large corps have taken over.
People no longer run their own blogs, they just publish on Facebook or Twitter. There is no grass roots publishing any more.
Sites are all standardized to Google's specs. No longer can a crazy site from Geocities appear anywhere on serps. Sites all look pretty much the same, produced to suit one corporation's demands.
The Internet I knew in the 1990's is dead already. But the question is, is the larger Internet dying for individuals and becoming a communications network for large corporation's applications?
Smart phones, smart TV's, websites running as applications in these devices, people accessing these using a TV remote control instead of a keyboard. Only content published by individuals is on Twitter or FB using their phones (very limited).
Basically we've gone back to large media. Individuals no longer yield any power on the Internet. It's been that way for a long time, but I've come to realize this more clearly recently.
We're all working for a few large corporations online. Those who get into the Internet today have no idea how free we were in the 1990's.
A handful of large corps coordinate the Internet. You only get seen if you shine through on their proprietary platforms. Individuals are gone. No independent search engine exists, no competitor to Google exists in fact, Facebook and Twitter command a large fraction of the rest of traffic. Amazon and a couple of others take the rest of the traffic.
The Internet as we knew it is dying or is already dead. It's now a closed system run by a few corporations, a lot like AOL and Prodigy were back in the day.
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