Thread: Attention economy

It comprises of a market place where the consumers agree to receive services in lieu of their attention, for example personalized news, alerts. Consumer has the choice and will stick around as long as there are relevant content to choose from. This concept will become an important part of the web economy in the next decade.
Another important trend that will catch up will be the promotion of web sites as web services. It will lead to more structured information in a more organized way. Two ways to achieve this would be to provide information via REST API or to keep it proprietary. In case of proprietary, the information would be shared using smashup.