When Worlds Fail To Collide or Yawn
In my opinion Microsoft’s announcement of Photo2Search, will send ripples through the mobile world. It will also be the tipping point for mobile marketing, mobile search and physical world connection adoption.
The camera on your mobile phone is your “mouse” and every physical object has, or will become, a physical world hyperlink, Phase 2 of the Internet begins.
Phase 2 of the Internet? Are you serious? Nevermind the lack of computer vision technology, or the lack
mobile storage and processing power to even attempt computer vision. Let’s just deal with the term.
I hate the term Web 2.0. I absolutely hate it but use it for reasons of common understanding. I have always preferred the term “social software.” But that is all a non sequiter. Web 2.0 is inherently false. An organic system doesn’t have version numbers, and any complex enough computer network behaves like an organic system (as per Linked). When I graduated from elementary school I didn’t become Bill 2.0, I remained simply Bill. There is no point where the web became 2.0.
Having the audacity to call a doomed to failure technological implementation “Phase 2 of the Internet” is mind boggling. First off, the web is around Phase 7 anyway. Phase 2 was when someone figured out how to send email automatically through multiple computers. What TPP is referring to isn’t truly a piece of the Internet any more than this site is a phase of the Internet. So a machine translate a picture into a collection of objects, then referrences those objects online, providing the user with such information. That’s called machine-assisted research with the queries being performed by computer vision. It’s not as important or world shattering as TPP realizes, and when it is actually implemented (15 years later, at least), it will be considered a basic service. It won’t be the “killer app” of computer vision.