Techniques developed to deal with interlinked, heterogenous data acquired by massive web companies will be our maintools as the rest of us transition to digital-native operation.
Future versions will include tools that let people use popular Chinese web services such as Baidu maps, the Taobao shopping service as well as versions of office programs and image management tools, directly from Ubuntu's main screen.
Twitter is also considering placing its Promoted Tweets in the main timeline of Tweets, FT Technology recently said, as well as developing offers similar to Groupon and new tools that would allow advertisers to pre-schedule posts.