Next Big Thing: Shazam for Facebook

Web-everywhere is spreading like wildfire, and even though the flames are tiny now, we may have never before seen a faster spread than the one we are about to experience.

If you were still wondering what's the craze about the mobile web and why it's the future, and (whether or not you use it) you still don't get Twitter, then the lightbulb is about to be switched on for you.

Do the terms Walking Encyclopedia or Photographic Memory sound at all appealing? And then some?

This video from the TED conference from way back in early 2009... is an interesting take on web-everywhere:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

But I believe we're already 80% there with existing smartphones. Think iPhone around your neck with a pico projector included. Just add some stylish eyewear with video feedback capability with self-adjustable photogray lenses, and you've got a compact, comfy and cool-looking combo.

Signing in and out of Facebook (or a startup that beats them to this Holy Grail) will be a thing of the past because it will always be there (if you choose, of course).

I believe we'll see a "Shazam for Facebook" type of application by this time next year easily: wearing your always-on video phone, facial-recognition software will capture images of faces you encounter, matching them to user-submitted front-facing headshot photos (or multiples!) on Facebook, and projecting in your glasses (preferable to projecting onto the person I'd think) all the information this person has chosen to make public.

Watch the TED video, and leave me a comment on what you think this scenario is going to look like when it plays out!