September 22, 2005
Web 3.0 Will Be About Social Metadata
Some people have said that folksonomy is just a flash in the pan. Others claim that tagging is the future of knowledge management. I think they are just the tips of the iceberg.
I�m predicting that Web 3.0 will be all about social metadata. Specifically, by factoring in the opinions, naming conventions, web habits, locations, and behaviors of regular people and their “friends” � social metadata will *finally* humanize Google�s machine algorithm, make sense of the Yahoo! hodge-podge, and lead to hundreds of really fascinating applications to enhance:
- local and vertical searches
- recommendation engines
- search query articulation and facilitated browsing
- social networks around communities of interest
- knowledge management in corporations
- usefulness of user-generated content through reputation management
- and lots more
In fact, it�s happening � for all its flaws, Yahoo!360 already has most of the pieces in place. I�d keep an eye on what they�re doing with it.
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I agree that Yahoo! 360 is on the right track, but the community is an utter mess and limits its usefulness. It is not something that is beyond fixing, and actually it is rather easily fixed, but it should have been seen early on in the process.
Yahoo! is sitting on a great foundation for moving a centralized personal space (Personal InfoCloud) forward, if they start to focus on some to the interface and interaction design of the tools they provide and start thinking rationally about how to tie the pieces together while embracing privacy.
Posted by: vanderwal at October 19, 2005 7:24 AM