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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Consolidation and De-centralization for Web 2.0/Social Media

As I join a new website and offered to create a new profile, find friends, make posts, look at new content. I cannot help but think there is a better way. There is no reason why something cannot float above all this and bring it all together. I hate going to one site to post about one topic and another site to post about something else. I once thought that it is simple chaos and one is silly to try and organize chaos, but someone helped me see that it is simply just overly complex. What will make things move forward will be the decentralization of information. Where these community groups pop up they act as connectors for similar people and information, not storage. This is the proposed webtop (desktop for the web), but most variants miss how to bring it together. They do not make the interface flexible enough. I want one point that is me in cyberspace, I connect to it through my phone, my computer, my tv, my purchasing habits, my tweets, my friends, my friends of friends, my blogs, my emails. It is me, just digital. Everything in the digital world that wants to take a piece of me into their system, should just reference me and filter what they want out of it. Where can I go that I can see parts of cyberspace that interests me (information that I want, people that I know or would like to know, the information that the many communities I am part of that is relevant to me) and I can choose to say what is relevant and what is not and further refine through that feedback loop of what to see. Of course sometimes, it is good to see things that we are not interested in or do not want to see, since that is the world.

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