Future Thoughts

Ok we are getting somewhere with our work, I'm not sure where, but we are getting there….

This article gave us a glimpse into the future, it's one big social network, that has an infinite number of smaller social networks under it.
From the looks of it Google is trying to become this network.

I'm not sure what I wrote so I'll put it in simpler words – Facebook, hi5, LinkeIn, etc, will all be a part of a bigger social network, basically all the web will a big social network. Site such as socialGo are a good example of how common the technology is becoming, you can open your own social network within minutes.

This is actually nothing new just another step in greater web connectivity. All the actions we can do today, will be easier, each person / profile will be a junction (and a stand alone social network), your mail, YouTube, messenger, cell phone, and all other accounts and forms of communications will be under one user, of course you can have as many users as you like (I hope this will be the case, but web freedom is a different issue….). Obviously the folks at voxox understand this better then we do.

So what?

Well this makes our work even more relevant as rating a user only by the amount of incoming links won't be enough, nor will network and content mining.
As we see it the solution is a combination of all the ranking systems.
Content (semantic search engines), links (old school search engines), collective intelligence (digg), network analysis, and many more which we don't know of.

We came across a few ranking tools that try to combine a few platforms (socialmeter), but all they did is show us how limited they are.

The more transparent (readable) the web will become for different creepy crawlies the better image we can get of the users.

We don’t think that all the web should be open to all crawlies, this is a dangers act, but if different parts of the web will be open to different crawlers the combination of all them will give a better picture of a user. No more one dimensional users, but a multi dimensional user-social network.

What say you?