What Your Gadgets are Doing to the Social Web
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Web-enabled devices aren’t just a one way street, you know. While the effect that new content or services online has on your daily experience with your iPhone, XBox, Blackberry, etc. is readily apparent as soon as you start browsing around, a more subtle form of influence is traveling in the opposite direction: gadget use is changing the way the web works. Slowly, perhaps, but in an enduring and ultimately profound way.
Dana Oshiro, marketing director of the “peer-to-peer tech support site” FixYa has done a handy job of teasing out what some of these effects might be, in a guest post for Mashable.com entitled 6 Gadget Trends and Their Effects on Social Media. Some of the findings are fairly obvious — location-based sites like Brightkite and Loopt, for example, owe much of their success to GPS-enable smartphones — while others are more intriguing. Curious how the web will react to pico-projector-enabled phones? Check out the article for a plausible answer.
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