Sam Sethi

Education

• Loughborough Grammar School
• Cass Business School
• Royal Military Academy

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Sam Sethi’s Summary

I am currently reading and thinking about what comes next on the web. I am so bored with reading more about MicroBlogging (Twitter, Identi.ca, Tumblr), Social Networks (Facebook, Plaxo) and aggregator services (Friendfeed, MyBloglog).

Instead I am trying drown out the noise to spot the new trends. The most obvious over the last six months is "cloud computing" (Microsoft Live, MobileMe, Amazon S3, Google) but with more of our data and apps moving upwards as ubiquitous connectivity becomes more widespread. (WiMax, 4G, LAT, FemtoCell) we will see more devices beyond the PC breing connected. i.e 5+ "screens of life PC", Mobile (iPhone), Car (Dash, OnStar, BMW), TV (SlingBox, Orb, SimplyMedia), Home Appliances (getgreenbox.com, alertme.com, realtime smartmetering http://realtime.ngi.ibm.com/currentcost/ etc) and apparel (heads up displays for glasses from MicroVision, Vuzix), Jackets (Burton, M&S etc)

So as numerous new web connected devices appear (time for IPv6), they will initially use standard HTTP: protocols but we will see new ones appear such as Bi Directional Atom (replace RSS) over XMPP, XEP, MQTT, Zigbee, RFID2 etc

Finally we will see the web turn itself on its head (Dataportability). i.e we will not place our data in silos for free but keep it in our own RESTful data stores (SQLite which is already on OSX and iPhone plus Android) and distribute it using bi-directional atom over XMPP to services like LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon etc. in order to sell it for value. (not money). The increased value of our data will be based on reputation.

Why should Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook make money from our attention and data via advertisers without sharing the rewards with us.

So I am now thinking of how to create a reputation algorithm (Reputation is something awarded by others and not something I can create myself) similar to page ranking. This is pretty much done.

Sam Sethi’s Education

• Loughborough Grammar School

  Maths and Economics 1976 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  A traditional english public school. So all I did was play Rugby 4 times a week!

• Cass Business School

  MBA , Thesis: Workgroup Computing , 1990 — 1992

• Royal Military Academy

  Army Officer 1985 — 1986

  I joined the British Army on a Short Service commission (3 years). I followed Sandhurst by joining the Parachute regiment.