China Moves to Dominate the Next Stage of the Web
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 14/08/2010 16:33
[ReadWriteWeb] Blogging, Tweeting and Facebook have changed the world by making it easier than ever for everyday people to publish and distribute their thoughts and media to the world. The resulting tidal wave of data now offers opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs to build entire new products, services and companies based on processing that data and offering recommendations, analytics and other information products to consumers.
Social data is set to be surpassed in the data economy, though, by data published by physical, real-world objects like sensors, smart grids and connected devices. The United States may have dominated the first basic and the second social stage of the Web, but the Chinese government is moving quickly to make China the world leader in this next stage, the Internet of Things. A major new public/private partnership in Chongqing aimed explicitely at the Internet of Things is just the latest signal.
www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/08/12/12readwriteweb-china-moves-to-dominate-the-next-stage-of-t-61741.html
