Customized Information

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Description

In today's life, we all get lavished with various kinds of information. Often they are completely unnecessary for somebody. So there is a need of customized information. Customizing their own information means that people can choose which information they want a certain time. One example is television: Nowadays people buy TV serie on DVD to watch them whenever they want. This can be adapted to information about a certain location where someone is a t a certain point in time. There is a large variety of example of cistomized information.

Enablers

  • Information Overload: People can specify what they need rather than browsing through a complex mess.
  • On the Move: People will be more mobile and need information "on-the-move"
  • Comfort: People like to choose what to do and especially when to do it!

Inhibitors

  • Government
  • Film Industry, TV Stations
  • Advertising Industry

Paradigms

  • Old: People are supplied with a large set of information the do not need.
  • New: People get the information they have specified.

Experts

  • GPS, Galileo
  • TV, Film Industry "Hollywood"
  • Trend-Setter

Timing

Gathering people's need and clustering them.

Web Resources