On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> wrote:
At some time in the future and when a new paradigm for the user interface is conceived, we may not longer have the end user “typing” a URL, the DNS or something similar will still be in the background providing name to address mapping but there will be no more monetary value associated with it or that value will be transferred to something else.
We're already there. It's called "Google".
In the the vast majority of cases I have seen, people don't type domain names, they search the web. When they do type a domain name, they usually type it into the Google search box.
Partially true for web access, very rarely true for email. I type in email domains much more often than I do web domains. And now email addresses are becoming URIs for log ins, SIP calling, video conferencing, etc. It's also interesting how in some ways twitter and its relatives have been sending URLs backwards. If you type in http://www.americafree.tv you may have some idea what you are getting, but if you type in http://bit.ly/w5aM4 you have none. (These two URLs go, or at least they should go, to the same place. Who knows if that will be true in a year, or 5, or 10.) Here is a place IMO where a better UI and URI philosophy would really help. Regards Marshall
(Alternatively, they type everything into the browser's "address bar", which is really a "search-the-web bar" in most browsers.)
(Replace "Google" with search engine of your choice.)
-- Ben