digital art science

My eyes have been opened. Web 3.0 is upon us and is rapidly becoming the norm for those of us lucky enough to be at the aforementioned pointy end.
Those of you still wallowing in the quagmire of Web 2.0, prick up thine ears. We on the bleeding edge are filtering out the crap and basking in the bright sun of aggregation and personalisation. And conversely, we are ensuring that our utterings are broadcast to the largest possible audience and reaping the webby benefits. Is there any greater achievement in the golden age of digital narcissism?

For me it all started with UnHub. Briefly, Skittles short web 2.0 campaign saw them replace their brand site with links to their web 2.0 portals, twitter feeds and wiki entries, with varying degrees of success. So, a couple of fellas latched onto the idea and built an interface that allows you to import all your blogs, feeds and websites into a simple toolbar, from whence the user can marvel at your eloquency and intelligence. Nice!

And that simple experience sent me on a little aggregation journey. And I found that there are indeed some very useful and incredible tools out there. Some known, some not so much so.

By spending some time setting up ping, I can update all my statuses, micro-blogs, even blogs and LinkedIn statuses at once.  Gone are the days of 17 browser tabs being open at once and losing myself in a complicated world of, well everything really.

And then there was Triond. It purports to be a portal that can get your content read and viewed by the right people, and pay you for the privelege! I uploaded and article that was plagiarised by The Age recently and it’s already kicking back some returns and hitting eyeballs that I woudl never have the time to go after. Nice. And everytime I get published through that, it sends out a tweet about it.

And you can’t go past Twitter, which I believe sits on the cusp of webs 2.0 and 3.0. the harbinger of aggregation. No longer do I hunt around the web for content to keep me up to speed.  There’s literally millions of people out there doing the job for me.  I just need to follow the right people.

It’s all getting quite fascinating and exciting. But I know you guys have short attention spans. So I’ll leave it at that and say, go and check some of this stuff out, find your own wonders and let me know about them.