Very interesting Vimeo hosted video about the future of the web; what we need to do and where it needs to go. I really understood this one.
Content isn’t king after all; context is.
We need to capture the meaning and relationship of data. And current searches aren’t efficient and they don’t scale up. At the moment when you do a search you have to do most of the work. You have to consider the criteria. If the search returns results you weren’t wanting, you have to redefine your parameters. Tim Berners-Lee says,
That’s not a search. You’re parachuting in and crossing your fingers hoping to land on something interesting.
Tim Berners-Lee
With all the information that’s out there, if it isn’t indexed in an accessible form it might as well not be out there.
Chris Dixon, hunch.com CEO
Before long every item will have a page on the web. Right now every tweet is a page on the web. How do you filter?
Anyway, watch Kate Ray’s video:
