Thanks for your thoughts..!

I do agree with a lot of what you say – in particular re RSS. That’s a technology that the majority of people have never come to grips with and, unless someone gives it a complete makeover that moves it out of the ‘Geek’ domain into the ‘Regular Guy’s’ domain it, won’t go anywhere.

However – that’s definitely not beyond the bounds of possibility! As you say – technology is becoming ever more user friendly and, from a pure message delivery perspective, RSS has a lot of advantages.

It may only take someone to make it much more user friendly for it to take hold and become much more widely used.

Thanks again for chipping in..!

Cheers,

Martin.

I believe that Internet Marketing will morph according to technology. The future technology will be more user-friendly and more target oriented. i.e. you’ll never get adverts that you don’t have interest in.

Social Media has evolved as a new media for communication and interaction. I believe it will grow astronomically to provide communication support that will surpass the utility of email communication. But, I guess time has come for email service providers to go beyond the classical email service.

To reduce spams, one thing that email service providers can immediately implement is the permission-based email reading. You can allow permission to someone to send further mails to you. It’s as same as allowing the graphics to load in your email. Otherwise, you will see only Subject Header and Sender Information. That will create a touch of Social Media in email. If you don’t want email from a specific address, then you can block it like you block calls from specific mobile phones through your mobile operator.

Getting people use to RSS will be tough. Personally, I prefer RSS feeds as email. Because, I like to get all things in one place. But, that’s a thing that email service providers can think about adding, i.e. another value added item. Then you would not need the permission I was talking about for newsletters. Well, I believe there would be feed spamming. But, I haven’t seen that yet, only exception is feed advertisement.

The mobile technology is changing very fast. It already created stir in the densely populated countries. Being one of the most densely populated country in the world, Bangladesh is enjoying the lowest call rate. But, for low utilization of mobile networking devices in low dense populated locations, the call rates are very high. Because, maintenance cost for mobile networking devices are high fixed cost and increase in the utilization rate decrease usage cost.

Technologies like WiFi, WiMax, and BlueTooth I believe will change the way you think about mobile phones. We might not be using mobile phones anymore to communicate. Rather, we will be using WiFi, WiMax, and BlueTooth Handhelds for communication.

I agree on the spam – it does seem to have taken a turn for the worse recently.

Wouldn’t it be great to see Google brought down to earth..!?

Cheers,

Martin.

In the long term I think internet marketing will reach a level of sophistication that will leave many newcomers floundering. There will still be opportunities but the game seems to be getting harder already.

I even think the behemoth called Google will have serious competition by then.