The web behind a velvet rope.
December 13th, 2009
A fascinating take on today’s online experience and where it could potentially wind up going:
[The Web has become] an experience akin to wading through a junkyard. Ads on top, on the side, sliding down, peeling off, exploding. It’s an awful experience. It’s so awful, in fact, that I believe that people will pay good money to experience a different kind of Web.
I want the equivalent of an Admiral’s Club at the airport. I want to sip my wine and read the Wall Street Journal while the masses stumble over their bags trying to get through security.
I would assume that it is this kind of thinking which originally motivated the development of RSS products Feedly and Times.
I look forward to taking on a project where I can argue for this approach.
(Via Eric)