The Next Next Big Thing

…is Who 2.0. That’s according to an inter­view with Tim O’Reilly, the man who pop­ular­ised Web 2.0. On Basque news site eitb24, he said that he thinks:

…certain kinds of data­bases are going to become really big and really useful. We are just in the early stages, digital identity doesn’t really work yet.

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Googling Me, Googling You. Ah-​​ha

Online privacy and repu­ta­tion is going to be big business over the next few years. The last couple of weeks have seen the beta launch of both London’s Garlik and US-​​​​based Reputation Defender. Both of these sub­scrip­tion services offer to scour the web for you, find every trace of your name and optionally

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Vox Populi?

Nice inter­view on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/​​blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the exist­ence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains:

More import­antly to Vox, we believe there is very

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MyBlogLog is Watching You

The out-​​​​of-​​​​beta relaunch of MyBlogLog was covered twice today on Techcrunch. On the front page Marshall Kirkpatrick notes that the site func­tions as an auto­mated social network around your blog using cookies to show the members visiting your site and allowing users to mine inform­a­tion about what sites they visit.

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2020 Internet Vision

Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020:

A low-​​​​cost global network will be thriving and creating new oppor­tun­ities in a “flat­ten­ing” world. Humans will remain in charge of tech­no­logy, even as more activity is auto­mated and “smart agents”

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