I’m hearing all this yip-yap about web3.0 lately. It also it seems Google has recently come up with the equation Adsense + YouTube = profit! Personally I think its all crap, more of the same. If you want to talk a quantum leap in the web - it wont be giving us fancy new UI features or different ways of linking data. I think it’s a joke that people are not looking at the obvious reason of whats is holding back the success the net - and I find it more hilarious that Google, the company in charge of helping us find things is focusing on sending us off to other places.
Yea, that’s what holding us back from 3.0 - Advertising. We are still sticking stupid ads everywhere.. and those ads are usually not relevant. Even if they were, people are still being shady and tricking users into clicking them. This whole relationship between service providers and users is just awkward and the conversation about the relationship isn’t allowed to happen. Users just wanna say “Get rid of the @#$@%in’ ads!” and the service providers just wanna say “Click my @#$@%in’ ads!”.
How about we get rid of that frustration and stop referring people to crap - A year ago I already said how Amazon could evolve the web.
What if AWS took this idea a few steps further and built a way that allowed for HIT’s to be displayed offsite AND be completed on BEHALF of other workers. Think AMT + Adsense or “AMTSense” as I will call it through out the rest of this post.
Let users reward content providers by lending them their brain cycles - no more begging for donations, no more annoying ads.. nothing. A website could flat out say “like this site? well why not spend 5 minutes and [insert intelligence task here] as a thanks!”. It’s too bad Amazon wont let this *genuine* conversation take place - they’ve even had a year to evolve AMT. I guess they are waiting for someone to take this chance away from them.
Think of it this way - Look at Facebooks advertising strategy. They have the eager attention of MILLIONS yet all they do is try and send them over to Zwinky.com or try to sell jpegs of cupcakes to turn a buck. What if they required a person to do 1 micro-task a day/week/month/whatever to use the service?
