I’m writing this in response to a number of great blog posts and tweets I’ve seen in the last week on Twitter’s capacity for search and recommendations.
Brian Solis at PR 2.0 has been blogging about the rise of the Statusphere (i.e. Twitter & Facebook) over the Blogosphere, and it got me a bit worried. I wrote a comment on his post about how we’re becoming distracted by more and more things online, and this is compromising our ability to focus on the task in hand. I then made some quip about us heading for a ‘singularity of minimal input and output’. I guess my head must have been full of dystopian fears from watching Wall-E the other week…
Anyway, I’m pleased to announce that I’m wrong, or at least I think I am anyway. The chat on the web this week is about how platforms like Twitter have more of a human touch and real-life value than anything we’ve used before. (more…)
