Robert Scoble
The Generation ‘C’ Tool Suite
Position Paper
Today’s “social software” situation feels like 1989’s
productivity software situation. Back then people had to buy a separate word
processor, spreadsheet, database, and presentation applications that didn’t particularly
work well together. Today users have to get several different applications and
services to communicate on the Internet:
Over the next two years you’ll see these 12 seemingly-separate technologies converge into a “Generation ‘C’”
http://www.mediacenter.org/simm/generationc/ toolset that is tied together in three ways:
- An identity system (which is what Kim’s in charge of). Imagine that signing up for a blog also gets you recognized by a mapping service or a podcast service.
- A linking technology like SmartTags or Google’s AutoLink.
- Tagging, like what Technorati and Flickr are already doing.
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