It's part of what Scoble was on about and I think he has a point. The idea that all these social networks will ultimately lead into the greater flow of data and profiling is the most interesting for me. This will propagate itself into search, advertising and marketing and through communication and it's happening as we speak(write).

In a conversation over at RadioOpensource.org he makes a comment about the 'disappearance of the virtual'. He explains how in the past we had little cyberspace and more of the real world and, how all of that has changed to the level where everything happens on the net. The strangness and newness of the net is slowly dissapearing and soon speaking in terms of the NET and Real world would become meaningless.

In a similar way, I see the disappearance of Social Networks not so much so the disappearance but merely a slow assimilation and migration to something much bigger.

I have mental images of this magnificent CGI rendering of a scene where you are viewing molecules moving round and round and as you zoom out you begin to see hundreds upon thousands of them as they get smaller and smaller, soon you are at magnify level where you realise you are looking at a primitive single cell organism like the amoeba and as you continue reducing the magnification level that single cell view zooms out and you see other cells and soon you realise you are looking at what appears to be neurons connected to each other and forming a pathway, no, a network of pathways.

In a similar way I think this is what is happening on the web.

It’s part of what Scoble was on about and I think he has a point. The idea that all these social networks will ultimately lead into the greater flow of data and profiling is the most interesting for me. This will propagate itself into search, advertising and marketing and through communication and it’s happening as we speak(write).

In a conversation over at RadioOpensource.org he makes a comment about the ‘disappearance of the virtual’. He explains how in the past we had little cyberspace and more of the real world and, how all of that has changed to the level where everything happens on the net. The strangness and newness of the net is slowly dissapearing and soon speaking in terms of the NET and Real world would become meaningless.

In a similar way, I see the disappearance of Social Networks not so much so the disappearance but merely a slow assimilation and migration to something much bigger.

I have mental images of this magnificent CGI rendering of a scene where you are viewing molecules moving round and round and as you zoom out you begin to see hundreds upon thousands of them as they get smaller and smaller, soon you are at magnify level where you realise you are looking at a primitive single cell organism like the amoeba and as you continue reducing the magnification level that single cell view zooms out and you see other cells and soon you realise you are looking at what appears to be neurons connected to each other and forming a pathway, no, a network of pathways.

In a similar way I think this is what is happening on the web.