I think the current economic situation is a good wake up call, that rabid "Twitter for cats" type copy cats with no business model have not, will not make any sense, certainly not more than the behavior and mentality that started the current crisis in the first place, e.g. get rich quick aka get a startup out quick with no interest in whether the technology will actually make a difference from the consumer's point of view, or from the advertiser's point of view. I surmise that 90% of the apps popping up daily in the gotoweb2.0.net directory will be dead in a few months. Here's my .02: 1. I don't care what you call it, 2.0, 3.0, 10.0, 10.1.4 beta 1 or whatever. I think the next generation technologies will give a kick in the ass of true personalization. I know we heard this before but I don't mean personalization as in slapping a "hi, Dear Dan" type static message, I mean machine understanding/retrieval of user context via a mix of Machine Learning and smart metadata technologies that are able to parse out
- Dan Grigorovici
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