That’s right, you know i’ve talked about the fact that the half life of social networks tend to be about 5 years.  So what is the future of Internet based social networking?  Well let’s review technologies that no one ever thought would disappear.

• AOL as your one stop Internet provider/launch pad.


• Yahoo, one time the only search engine you ever used.


• Netscape, the best Internet Browser E-VAH!


• MySpace, What is that website all about?

That’s really just a top list of things that you have to be familiar with to understand that even though something looks like it has staying power, the reality is that it only does until the next best thing comes to town.  The the next best thing has to do something that is different and unique while at the same time is making your life better.

FACT:  An enormous amount of web content is being consumed and added via mobile devices.

FACT: In the next 3 years LTE and other “4G” type technologies will allow for reasonable access to the Internet for mobile devices regarding Multi-Media.

So what will be the next big thing for social networks?  A site will emerge that will combine a number of technologies and do it better than FB or Twitter, the features will include this:

• Privacy controls that allow you to have both Trusted Friends and unknown friends.  This will allow you to share data in different ways to different people.


• Better integration of your data.  It’s your data, you own it, you have a right to either host it on your own systems, or within its system.  You won’t be stuck in a stove pipe for your content.


• Location Awareness to help you discover more things in the world around you.  Not just a check in, but when you do, you get instant discounts and can rate the place and the service, post photos and everything to share (with privacy controls).


• Voice to text integration for updates to your feed.  But more than that, if you say, activity, it will link you with the activity or event that you’re associated with.


• Video Tagging of people when you upload your videos.

OK you say, there are websites that are kind of doing this and you can kluge them all together to sort of do that, but what will be revolutionary, not just evolutionary??

The revolutionary thing will be that you will have integrated FREE phone service as part of your social networking.  While that may not sound like a big deal, what it means is that the next best thing will eliminate your need for a telephone number all together.  Soon you will have digital communications account, portable and integrated with any system.  This will work for voice and video.

What it means is that mobile users eventually will only pay for data plans and eventually landline phones will not be able to “Dial” direct to those phones unless those data users have an intermediate phone number that forwards to their mobile device.

Phone numbers will be dead in 20 years!

Data only phones will be available in 3 years!

Your voice will be your link to the next revolution of the Social Networking experience, integrated in ways that you can’t yet even imagine.

The truth is this expanding Internet, which is quickly filling up with non-tech types just don’t care to read. They have short attentionspan theater running around in their heads, and it’s just as well.

Hollywood used Betty White in a promo for some movie when she mentioned, “I’m on THE Twitter” When you realize that there are millions of people who don’t necessarily “get it”, you can quickly see why people don’t blog much.

Another thing is that it is hard to write for people when you feel like you’re just writing for yourself. We express ourselves and post it online because we hope our messages in bottles will reach that unknown person and have an affect on them that says, “I hear ya!” It would be cool if there was a like button on my blog. You don’t have to comment, but rate my post. Tell me something, positive or negative.

I think with so much going on out there, Microblogging (Twitter and to some extent Facebook), is the distraction. It leads to great conversations and threads, but limits complete thoughts.

There are tools that will fill the gap, and people will use them, but one last thing is contributing to all this, and that’s the size of the platforms used to access the Net.

The iPhone and other smart phones have made these microblogging sites a great success. They owe a lot to them. You can be in the conversation 24/7 and you don’t need a computer. That’s why blogging is getting lame. It’s just too hard to do on these mobile devices with any great clarity. I’m writing this blog posting on an iPad with a REAL bluetooth Keyboard. I wouldn’t attempt it on the screen. But 140 Characters? I’m there. Post a Photo, I’m there. And most of my blogging is probably lame, but I’m there!

It doesn’t matter I suppose for the moment.  There is still time though to know what I should do next. Something tells me it’s time for dessert.

I sit at the water’s edge, and I wonder what I should be thinking. I walk the shore and look out and see the boats and the sky and the water. It’s calming to some degree, feeling the breeze on your face, and warmth of the sun beating down.

I’m thinking about a lot of things, what the future brings. I’m not certain any more what lies in that road ahead and in a lot of ways, i’m pretty happy with that.

Sometimes you don’t want stability. Sometimes you want the unknown. Sometimes you want the ability to change, you want to be able to change course whenever the moment, the whim strikes you.

I’m taking a deep breath, I’m not sure what will happen next.

I watched on older couple pray before they ate their meal, and I’m thinking that we all pray that we don’t get sick. But hey, I just am kidding, but you never see people praying at a fast food place.

Now two hotties just walked in, and they look as confused as ever.

What will ya do?

I’m shocked by seeing guys wearing girls earring, and peirced eyebrows. I don’t care, I just watch people, they are interesting.

Pirates of the Caribbean is an excellent movie, I’ll just get that out front.  I enjoyed it from the get go.  Its pretty obvious that people who don’t get it just aren’t into this genre of movies. But if you watched the last movie, then you’d quickly see how the point of this movie is to do a few important things:

• Bring Jack Sparrow back from the dead, and we quickly know why.


• Figure out how Barbosa came back.


• Settle some scores with Davy Jones.


• Put the British East India Tea Company out of business.


• Help Orlando Bloom’s character get his dad freed.


• Finally turn Kiera Knightley into a Pirate.

The movie has lots and lots of twists, turns, backstabbing, and fighting, and it was exciting, just about non-stop.  And any guy who wasn’t thinking how cool it would be to be sailing on the high seas, battling it out with a crew of scurvy bilge rats should have gone to watch “The way we were” on DVD.

Leave it to Disney to prove that Pirates aren’t all just Johnny Depp look alikes.  Every culture has its share of thieves and pirates, and in this movie we are allowed to see them all.  There is a lot of adult humor, and a lot of Disney humor, (if you’ve been on the ride).  The perpetual gag of the dog with the Key is great.

They say that Dead Men Tell no Tales, but this is a great tale, and a fun adventure that wraps up a little Ulysses and a bit of Robert Louis Stevenson in a tale that will in fact take you to the World’s End.

Have fun with this movie and enjoy it.  If you don’t get everything the first time, you’ll get it the second time i’m sure.

It is ironic that this is a movie about pirates, because it seemed to be much more a movie about Sailor’s and their love for the journey of the Sea.  What more did these pirates really want more than to love the ladies, and to drink good rum?

This is SailorJ!