However a paradox exists, in so much that we have discovered in the age of Google and now Twitter that better filters don’t mitigate information overload; they intensify it.
Anyway, given the amount of interest in what the next generation of search will morph into at this point in time (See Chris Dixon on Graphs). I thought I too would try to explore this idea of how the introduction of filters (i.e. Search Engines) has only added to the information chaos.
Let’s begin by saying that in retrospect it was inevitable that the first generation of winners on the web would be the list builders (i.e. initially Yahoo and then Google). But what about tomorrow? Will the future of the web just belong to another generation of superior list builders? or, perhaps even a generation of list aggregators? or, a generation of data visualisation or mash-up tools? or, can we expect a new business model to emerge and dominate the web as the mobile convergence of Media, IT and Telecoms enters into the next stage?
Today the talk is mostly focused on mapping the Social Graph and the Search for Relevance and Context with the Semantic Web being the next wave.
These are of course exclusively IT concepts and essentially consist of rationalizations based on improving the value of the data scattered across the endless lists. So I thought I’d try to explore how convergence delivered to us a world awash with the “ends lists of likes” and how we may be able to rediscover meaning from all this chaos.
Again rather than using lots of words I have tried to express the ideas diagrammatically. Smashing together the mathematics of content creation, data arrays and network theory into a convergence model. Again you will either find this to be a crude construct or you may find it holds out some meaning. Either way let me know what you think.
May 9th, 2011 → 4:14 pm
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August 16th, 2011 → 11:07 pm
[...] Needless to say I wish I’d stumbled across this material sooner. Particularly in light of the recent study of Metcalfe’s Law (see The roadmap from Metcalfe Law to Chaos Theory) and the much earlier posts on How yesterday’s news became just tables in a database and the search of a web beyond the endless lists of likes [...]