Lately, there have been a number of different internet radio stations being developed. In particular, as the expansion and availability of high speed internet increases so does the transfer of large datasets. This continues beyond simple radio stations or other individual purpose sites. Information aggregation is an influential factor in how we select which technologies to use; apropos Google, Inc.
Lately, our group has been working on to critique the Pandora.com web-interface. However, what has been troubling me lately is whether or not an entity such as Pandora could team with someone like Google, to improve their recommendation algorithms. Are companies becoming ‘entire service’ enterprises and losing their specialty focuses? Is this a direct result of data transfer capabilities?
I am left wondering what new types of services will be offered as the ability to access large volumes of information increases. It’s been interesting watching people imitate Pandora, such as Last.FM, and how individual markets and technologies are being driven by Internet Services.
April 16, 2008 at 7:36 pm
You mention the question, “Are companies becoming ‘entire service’ enterprises and losing their specialty focuses?” My thoughts to this is that companies are not losing their specialty focuses. The only companies that are trying to become force ‘entire service’ are the ones that are all ready successful enough, and can take on the risk. Obviously companies like Google will try almost anything, considering they maintain billions of dollars and run a monopoly in the online search engine category. Smaller companies will continue to stick to their original idea, hoping that it will catch society’s attention, and they can go from there. Larger companies will try to end the smaller companies dreams by coming out with a similar, but better product. Again, they can afford this risk.
As far as what new services will arise as the ability to access large volumes of information increases, I cannot say. This is above any one person’s imagination, and would take a team of intelligent people to create. However, it will be interesting.