Posts tagged “web trends

Google's PageRank dominance is crumbling as conversation shifts from blogs to Twitter, Facebook, and other real-time streams it can't effectively index. Whoever figures out how to measure authority across all these channels, not just the web, will have a shot at unseating Google in search.

I've been thinking hard about where social networks are headed. No single network will "win" -- people have multiple social circles, so they'll always maintain multiple networks. The real unsolved problems are partitioning: selective data portability, unified messaging, identity verification, and filtering connections by actual relevance. Interoperability is the next big thing.