Web 3.0 could be all about who you follow. Who do you follow on Twitter? Who do you follow on FriendFeed? Are you getting all the latest tweets and posts? Hurry, hurry, because there's a brand new application starting up tomorrow and you'll need to know who to follow there too. I just hope it's not a clique fest (click pun, get it?).
*Sigh*
Erick Schonfeld wrote a piece hoping that web 3.0 would "be about reducing the noise," referring to his overload of tweets and posts to wade through. I too hope the innovators will streamline many people's web 2.0 reality: 40 user names passwords, 30 video sites, 10 networking must-views...and 5 new ones tomorrow. There needs to be a backlash of some sort.
Today I read about the ridiculous act of spitting in Michael Arrington's face. I certainly can't say for sure what that was about because the *ahem* gentleman who spit hurried off so that his point, if there was one, will not even be known. (Perhaps he'll blog about it from his cowardly lair.) But it's easy enough to to sense a backlash in the act. I don't know too much about Arrington or Tech Crunch, but I read Tech Crunchand have already referenced one article in this blog (Schonfeld's). I do know enough to see influence when I see it--and Arrington has that. Arrington is web 2.0.
Another phenomenon of web 2.0 is a rather unattractive part of people's profiles. Mine included. Take FriendFeed for example. Each profile includes feeds from You Tube, Seesmic, Twitter, blogs, and more. It ends up looking like a Cub Scout shirt full of merit badges. Sure, I got kicked out of Cub Scouts, so that might have something to do with my current rant.
Anyway. Backlash. Revolt. Fix. Improve. Make it easier for Eric. And try to fix it before I even realize it's broken. Thank you.
