This could end in tears.....billions of them

Sunday, June 1. 2008

This could end in tears.....billions of them

Fred Wilson notes today that he sees a future of social media where:

every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet.

Its the Microsoft Gambit for social media, but be careful what you wish for ! I mean, do you really want the banality of all human thought digitised forever

( OK, OK - its a great aim, but can we talk about filtering as a matter of priority then! )

Update - Alex van Elsas pointed me to this post of his - arguing that the killer app is Interaction. As it has been on every social media since it began, brom BBS, via Usenet etc. We forget things so quickly

Posted by Alan Patrick in Social Networks at 11:54 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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filtering is the next big deal in social media for sure

#1 fred wilson (Homepage) on 2008-06-02 10:27 (Reply)

Fred, the other thing with flters is they retain more value than aggregators imho

#2 alan p on 2008-06-02 16:08 (Reply)

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