I think the road to a new wave of ‘social networking’ and ‘tagging’ systems is via better local capture of (marginal) knowledge—that is systems that facilitate adding notes and tags to online content and then searching it. We can do it manually—but it works only for stuff that we quickly recognize as important, it is much less efficient for stuff that grows on us slowly with marginal steps. It is kind of strange that after 25 years of the web bookmarks management is still so hard. After this is finally fixed—with systems like: https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/blob/develop/GETTING-STARTED.md, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24572449 etc—then the next stage will be connecting these local knowledge repos.
Speculative.
I think the road to a new wave of ‘social networking’ and ‘tagging’ systems is via better local capture of (marginal) knowledge—that is systems that facilitate adding notes and tags to online content and then searching it. We can do it manually—but it works only for stuff that we quickly recognize as important, it is much less efficient for stuff that grows on us slowly with marginal steps. It is kind of strange that after 25 years of the web bookmarks management is still so hard. After this is finally fixed—with systems like: https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/blob/develop/GETTING-STARTED.md, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24572449 etc—then the next stage will be connecting these local knowledge repos.