- Mobile and wireless technology ... phones are what people carry with them always, they NEED their phones, the web or tv are nice to have, mobile phones are with people when they have unexpected downtime, e.g. waiting for and appointment to start or boarding in an airport, mobile technology is good, but not as reliable as it needs to be, apps on mobile phones continue to make accessing media and information more convenient, provide brand new game-like experiences or to extend the value of the phone (e.g. apps that turn the camera and character recognition technology into a barcode scanner)
- Systems of sensors ... not just individual ubiquitous sensors, but ubiquitous systems of sensors ... sensors are cheaper, more reliable for a variety of reasons, like advances in nanotechnology that make the manufacture of new sensors possible ... the power of these systems is driven by mature communication buses (e.g. CANbus) and other proven technologies/methods for coordinating entire systems of many sensors.
- GPS and other satellite technologies ... beyond geo-tagging of photos on the web, location-based services, precision placement of seed/nutrients is now standard, necessary for agriculture and all kinds of industries ... satellites continue to be launched; companies will continue to offer new services based on satellite technology
- Affordable cameras, video recorders, microphones and other consumer media capture technologies and the software to edit/store/share/sell media ... media-savvy consumers already capture several orders of magnitude more data now; this will grow as the adoption rate grows and the cost of the commodity components that power these devices is driven even lower
- Scalable cloud-based grids of utility computing power that find new ways to exploit the power of commercial off-the-shelf consumer technologies such as GPUs using in gaming and video cards
- Social communities and social commerce ... beyond Facebook and Twitter, capital and talent continues to pour into other social communities concepts -- many of these startups will fail, all will teach us something about the network effect, collaboration and radical transparency.
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence ... these are necessarily core competencies of Salebarn 3.0; this is also probably one of the hottest areas in research and development now; it's no longer esoteric or just cool ... every day more new practical applications emerge; every day more needs for further development present themselves
- Collective intelligence, collaboration ... crowdsourcing is maturing and become more sophisticated and less flaky; beyond the more mature and successful collaborative knowledge communities like Wikipedia, this includes things like recommendation engines and sentiment analysis engines
- Data sophistication ... many companies are luring customers with freemium models of their software services in order to gain access to the data; individual data is not sold but aggregate data might be sold; companies or governents are also offering data APIs to developer [in another freemium model] to encourage the developers to build mashups that tend to drive customers back to the business providing the data API
- Data-intensive scientific research such as geoscience and geological exploration, full genome sequencing and genome wide association studies, particle physics and the large hadron super collider that continue to drive the development of new supercomputing technologies for even greater computational power in the future
Key Enabling Technologies of Salebarn 3.0
Salebarn 3.0 is about mobile centricity and BIG DATA ... specifically, it is about converting data into useful information that small businesses can deploy in their marketing plans. There are some key technological developments that enable the BIG DATA world of Salebarn 3.0. Some of these include:
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