The nature of the Internet this remark or the new road sign

Another important person talked about the nature of the Internet: the Internet is not an endless magical world, it is just another engine to improve the quality of life. The speaker is the co-founder of Twitter, Evan (Evan Williams). His latest concern is that 56 million shares of Twitter will become more than 1 billion dollars worth. Evan Williams is the founder or co-founder of several famous Silicon Valley companies. 1999, he co-founded the blogger (formerly known as Pyra labs,2003 for sale to Google), 2004 founded the podcast Platform ODEO,2006 year founded TWITTER,2012 Year Medium Blog network. Now that Williams has left Twitter and is operating Odeo (but under pressure under the ITunes competition), he has just set up Medium. As for the understanding of "Internet nature", he delivered the above speech at the XOXO 2013, held in Poland at the end of September. He also has more in-depth remarks: The Internet is a huge machine designed to meet people's needs. It's not utopia, it's not magic, it's just a simple engine that offers convenience. Those who can fully adapt to the engine--faster and simpler ways to solve the basic human problems--can make a profit immediately. Those who ignore the fundamental needs of humanity and blindly pursue their own ideas may encounter difficulties. Unable to find the video of Williams ' speech at the XOXO event, we can only restore his speech from media coverage. According to Getguidance, Williams ' speech is divided into five parts: the internet can do two things: to do something new, to do what is already there, to solve the problems that they often encounter. The internet can help people solve existing problems in completely different ways and more easily The principle of convenience has two main elements: it is valuable to help us solve problems more quickly and spend less energy to solve the added "convenience" part of the problem. According to Wired, Williams makes more sense of convenience: if you want to build an internet company worth 1 billion of dollars, It should satisfy people's wishes, preferably a desire that has existed for a long time ... After you have identified your wishes, you will use modern technology to achieve it. Williams also pointed out very sharply that using convenience, so that people do not have to wait, without thinking, can create value, because we often think that the internet can let us engage in some new things. But people really just want to pursue what they have been pursuing. Williams ' conclusion is rather boring, and he seems to be erasing the value of "innovation". But in fact, throughout Apple, FacebooK, Amazon, Microsoft (Windows), or domestic Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, 360, millet and other companies, mostly by streamlining the original complex process, to achieve today's achievements. No wonder Wired Magazine commented on Williams's speech: The speech could serve as a signpost for the younger generation of Silicon Valley eager to guide. (It ' s a speech that should serve as a signpost, a bit of much-needed direction for the Valley ' younger.) (Evan Williams at the XOXO 2013 conference) in the Wired coverage article (Williams), I noticed his exposition of "the connection between people and machines": hardware is connected, and these interactions involve data and software. It's not hard to find out that the giants of the Internet industry are involved in many connections. "Attention" is a link, "Praise" is also a link. Last year when we were covering the Indo-American team, created the term "welink", when it explored the meaning of micro-trust in the Internet of things: perhaps, in the mobile web, where all of us are exploring, it is possible to redefine the network of things that are said to be rotten, LBS, O2O. It presents an interconnected form, rather than duplicating hyperlinks (hyperlink), instead of creating a true connection, connecting all the objects, and becoming a micro-chain (weilink) of the human-computer interface. Zhangxiaolong in July this year Tencent Partners conference Micro-Trust Forum also put forward "to solve human and enterprise, people and equipment communication problems." In fact, shortly after the exclusive interview with the Micro-trust team, I learned that Zhangxiaolong once responded to the "micro-chain" view: Eventually, the internet will come, micro-letter not only connect people, but also can connect to the network of machines, each machine has a two-dimensional code as the device ID, in the micro-letter and Device dialog to control the device. Like Williams, people who stand on the internet or mobile internet are thinking about the convenience of connections. And this is the nature of the Internet. Mobile Internet strengthens the connection, but makes the connection more diversified, the essence is unchanged.