Skip The Bachelor, Survivor and Idol. Instead, spend an hour of your life watching the recent interview between Charlie Rose and Web stalwart Mark Andreessen:
The interview is packed with geeky goodness, but perhaps what stood out most were comments on mobile by Andreessen, who said, “So the big thing is mobile has arrived. So you have these technology friends that people talked about, and talked about, and talked about, and talked about, and talked about, and they never quite happen. And then all of a sudden, they happen …
“You’ve now got the 3G networks. You’ve got really super sophisticated handsets. You’ve got application developers, you’ve got content, you’ve got all this stuff, and it’s just catalyzed, and it’s just gone boom. And so here in the US, we see it with the iPhone.”
Specifically, Andreessen praises the iPhone’s application marketplace and its impact on Microsoft’s mobile strategy. “They’re doing a rethink. They’ve had a mobile strategy for years, right, and they’ve had mobile, Windows Mobile. They’re doing a rethink of it because they’ve seen the iPhone, right?
“… And so there’s going to be just a tremendous amount of innovation, and then actually a lot of people using it. It’s going to be a real thing.”
Andreessen also describes his newest venture, Qik, a technology that allows users the ability to share with others what’s going on anywhere live. “So basically, 3 billion phones in the world. They all have cameras. 3 billion sources of live streaming video.”
Methinks such a solution could have interesting mobile recruitment implications.
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