my (2nd) hasty, partial-formed idea of the day:
the abundance of new "social" "web 2.0" sites is actually hurting the cause they are purporting to be encouraging ...
this is all about social exchange collaboration etc ... its about folksonomy etc and organizing the worlds information ..
but the more things we have like this springing up (delicious, stumble upon, diigo, etc etc etc) the less valuable they each become. if everyone used say delicious that would make it much more valuable than if half the people use something else ....
i guess the "solution" here is that eventually competition will drive others out and people will naturally standardize ... i just hope that happens soon ... and think of all the wasted annotations that will fall away when these other endeavors start to fall off.
the other angle is that if web2.0 philosophies are truly adopted, these sites will all be able to freely exchange and intermingle their data ... but then what will be the value that each provides? just a slightly different UI on this massive annotated database? so they all will ultimately merge then.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment