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South by Southwest Interactive Congress is a paradise for computer enthusiasts ——— the annual event in Austin has made many of the great ideas of the Internet a reality (for example, Twitter in the 2009 's foursquare;2007 year). Although this year's General Assembly has not yet had a similar great idea, it still points to trends and visions that could have a major impact on internet technology in the year 2010.

Tracking your location to allow you to enjoy the discount service around you

The focus of this year's conference has been on two game services developed on the basis of location-based technology: Gowalla in Austin and Four-square, headquartered in New York. The similarity between the two services is that users can get to a place where they can log in and enter real-world names, and if they belong to a hotspot area (that is, the system has already logged in to a sufficient number of businesses), the user will be able to obtain the appropriate membership card or discount. Foursquare was popular after the launch and built a huge user base, but the G-Owalla guidelines are indeed a stronger subversive concept. Two is better than one? We would say that they are tied because many enthusiasts use both to locate their friends and to find a meeting place.

Gowalla and Foursquare face the same challenges ——— how to break the characteristics of their technology to make this service a useful tool in everyday life. It's not easy. They have to deal with privacy issues (although they only follow your location after obtaining your consent) and establish partnerships with various businesses and brands to encourage doubtful customers to try this service.

To do the development platform of firewood, not simply a website

Twitter has never thought about becoming a twitter.com ——— the site itself is very simple design concept, which founder Evanwilliams also frankly admitted. Twitter's microblogging service was a step closer to @anywhere's release. @An-ywhere will provide publishers and designers with a platform to embed Twit-ter services in their own websites. The service, launched by Twitter, will work with 13 content providers, including the New York Times and Youku. This will allow Twitter users to publish information, search, or develop their customers without leaving the pages.

While there is still a lack of detail design, this is the first trick Twitter has to do with Facebook's link-platform features. Facebook's platform allows users to register information with their Facebook, log on to other sites, and communicate with each other. But Facebook has not stayed here ——— its developer Garethdavis once described the company as a service, not a network terminal. You can take a closer look at the meaning of this statement, which means Facebook may further downplay the importance of user login facebook.com and focus on Facebook as an indispensable tool in your online world.

Virtual social games, for gamers, also pull their partners

A new area that users can see on Facebook's new platform is embedded video games. Development engineers have released snippets of such games, and once the Facebookconnect is online, users will be able to share game data in their Facebook registration information, or embed personalized game scenarios and present them in your Xbox360 or other gaming devices. Apple has a similar feature in the latest generation of gaming software on the iphone platform that will allow you to share some of your design ideas with friends.

But beyond that, the game itself becomes more and more social. The success of a game like Happy Farm in 2009 also gave developers a similar insight ——— a game to be successful, you can't just develop features for gamers, but you have to provide users with a variety of fun features to share with friends. Happy farm may be the only virtual social game in real life ——— you can patronize your friend's farm and give help. The next generation of online games will provide more competitive modules for users.

Expansion of reality ——— extend your sight and choice

In fact, the expansion of reality is not something new ——— if you have seen the Olympic Games broadcast or some of the football events live, you will be familiar with some of the techniques to enhance the sense of the scene. But the challenge of this technology over the past 2010 years is how to use more and more webcams and smartphones to deliver the remote sites that we can use in our daily lives. One of the best examples of this is the Virtual box simulation service launched by the United States Postal Service. This service allows you to transfer a translucent 3D box model to you via webcam, so that you can choose the right size box to transport the package.

Virtual reality is also hot in iphone apps. This technique allows you to locate a friend by using virtual rays in the Ipew software, and also allows you to use the CarFinder software to position your parked car.

Application of cloud technology in music on demand

At the SXSWI conference, the much-awaited speaker was the Eodanielek of Spotify, a popular music service website in Europe that offers millions of music on-demand services. The provision of this service in the United States will be complicated by the issue of licensing and the relationship with the record company, although many people hope that EK will be able to release a timetable for entry into the U.S. market at the conference. This service, like the itunes model, wants to build a huge music repository and bypass the issue of downloading rights. If we can surf the Internet at any time and have almost all the songs in the Repository, who's going to burn CDs or buy songs?

Author: Dan Fletcher

Compiling: Our correspondent Zhang