Print 2.0 and catching up on my posts

You ever get so involved in something you don't even take the time to look up from your computer to enjoy the view. It's been a great couple months for us. I feel many ways we're going to keep pushing the limits with Cardvio. Here is a great article I found today on HP Print 2.0 Strategy, we met some of the team from Tabblo and we thought there technology was interesting and it's great to see someone get acquired in the space (even though it wasn't us).

There has been a ton of stuff going through my head as of late. Everything from Google Open Social to Print 2.0 to Gmail with IMAP support. Lastly, I saw this great video on Techcrunch about how information has changed since it's all become digital. Below is the list I created from the video of what we do with information on the internet.

Create
Organize
Search
Critique
Distribute
Understand

If you start thinking about these terms and where they are in their Internet timeline, you start to see that some are very mature and others have a long way to go. You can also start asking yourself what is the next word in the list, if you can figure out that you've probably got the next billion dollar idea.

I think we still have a long way to go with Understanding and Distributing information. A lot of people talk about the Semantic web will finally bring meaning to the internet but I think it's going to be very hard to make that work, Google is still doing a better job than anyone else. More importantly, we're still kind of locked down in terms of distribution, we still are confined to browsers and many of our devices still lack the ability to really see information in a meaningful way.

Anyway, I don't want to get to far off track with Printing 2.0 because I think at Cardvio we are really part of it. We are all about socializing the idea of cards and make them into a web 2.0 object with all the qualities that come with that. Printing might also be following the same process we've seen with the server/client model. In other words, printing is moving away from the desktop and moving back to the server. My hope is that this is the case and Cardvio gets to be part of it.