One comment on my own comments, 2) To be able to "say". To be able to issue verbs on the environment; to > say "I want Pizza" and to have people who want to sell me pizza compete for > the privilege...
When I talked about "inverting google" above: Imagine if you (or your bot) could listen in on google search requests, know who sent that request to google and know where that person stated they were. This could be accomplished by making a trivially small site - say called "talktogoogle" or something... All it would do is proxy requests... allowing users to share who they were. In this scenario anybody could listen to the requests going on around the world and see where they were, and have a bi-directional channel with all of the persons asking those questions... This could spur an ecosystem of parties who would try to answer questions... and it would spur the creation of trust filters and permissioning policy... in some ways similar to fire-eagle.... Old style searching might feel old fashioned, like television, by comparison... In fact you could probably build a pretty good searchable internet without any single definitive search company. Has anybody done that? * On an unrelated note on the WhereCamp front -> sessions are proceeding apace; see: http://twitter.com/wherecamp and see tag wherecamp2008 on flickr,delicious etc. - anselm
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