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Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise—And Twhirl Isn’t Hel...

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Even Robert Scoble, the biggest Twitter whore on the planet who follows 21,000 people and receives one Tweet per second, can’t deal with it anymore.

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Even Robert Scoble, the biggest Twitter whore on the planet who follows 21,000 people and receives one Tweet per second, can’t deal with it anymore.

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And it is not just Twitter. Lifestream aggregators like Friendfeed are supposed to make things simpler by consolidating the activities of everyone you know across the Web into one single view. But every day a new lifestream aggregator pops up to the point that it’s gotten to be ridiculous. Now, desktop utilities like Twhirl and Alerty Thing are taking these services out of the browser so that they are always on your desktop.

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Bringing all of this Web messaging and activity together in one place doesn’t really help.

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Bringing all of this Web messaging and activity together in one place doesn’t really help. It reminds me of a comment ThisNext CEO Gordon Gould made to me earlier this week when he predicted that Web 3.0 will be about reducing the noise. (Some say it will be about the semantic Web, but those two ideas are not mutually exclusive). I hope Gould is right, because what we really need are better filters.

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on 2008-06-22 by mmarlatt

I don't understand how Semantic Web is going to solve the issue of information overflow. We're assuming it's the "silver bullet" and I just don't see it (yet). We're still in the infancy of understanding how to deal with this non-stop stream of information...