Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise-And Twhirl Isn't Helping - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Apr 08
  

  Johannes Kleske

  • 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.

    
    

    I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts and emails and IMs a day to find the five things that I really need to know. People like Mike and Robert can do that, but they are weird, and even they have their limits.

    
    

    So where is the startup that is going to be my information filter? I am aware of a few companies working on this problem, but I have yet to see one that has solved it in a compelling way. Can someone please do this for me? Please? I need help. We all do.

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  Mike Koss

  INFORMATION OVERLOAD is perhaps the most desperate problem of users of the Internet. I'd agree with Arrington that one of the most compelling opportunities for a new business, is the ability to LIMIT the amount of information that we have to pay attentio

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  Britt Watwood

  I installed Twhirl on my desktop in a failed attempt to keep up better with Twitter and Friendfeed. hoping it would manage the never-ending flow of information. Instead, it took over my desktop and I couldn’t make it stop.

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  B Diettrich

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