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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big (The Shifted Librarian).
...If RSS is getting face-time at the expense of search, Google has
something to worry about. And it makes sense. From personal experience,
I know my daily routine to keep up with the information overload doesn
019t really involve searching anymore, but subscribing. Thanks to
services like Del.icio.us, Technorati and Digg.com, people are spending
a lot less time actively searching and more time passively reading what
019s being updated in their readers 026. 026In the race to find what
deserves face-time, services like Del.icio.us, Technorati and Digg.com
in combination with the rapid adoption of web apps like bloglines,
newsgator, feedster and kinja are making Google's search seem very,
very slow. And it's all being accomplished with RSS technology. [Edubloggers Links Feed]
7:49:25 AM  Google It!.
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Blogs are not the only fruit (Headshift).
Looking beyond blog and wikis, many other types of tools are adopting
socially connected characteristics, such as photo sharing, social
bookmarking, notetaking and many other types of applications. We will
need better aggregation and concept matching tools in order to pull
together an increasing amount of online interaction that is becoming
spread across too many places right now. Ton touches upon this in his
response to Stuart Henshall's announcement that he is moving away from
'traditional blogging', Marc Canter has been talking about digital
lifestyle aggregators for some time. Seb Paquet recently wrote about
commentlogging, which involves using del.icio.us to create a personal
trail of comments and discussions that a user takes part in, and
del.icio.us backlinks to see who has bookmarked a given page. The
meticulous Phil Gyford also scripted a tool recently to pull together
his varied output into a composite RSS feed to make it easier to follow
his tracks. Finally, of course, Technorati is doing an excellent job of
tying together weblog conversations and themes, and we can expect a lot
more from the sleeping giant in this space: Google. [Edubloggers Links Feed]
single inbox concept whose time comes again and then again later as
information exceeds organization. The filtering in email clients
presents a potentially powerful model if it could be extended to allow
for mulitiple crossclassifications based on semantic similarity -- BL
7:47:09 AM Google It!.
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© Copyright 2005 Bruce Landon.
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