What kind of intelligence can be attributed to the web? How is it different from web 1.0?
IMHO – web 1.0 was hijacked by the marketers, advertisers and the people who wanted to stuff canned content down our throat! Take away all that after the dot com bubble and what’s left is the web as it was originally meant to be – a global means of communication. The intelligence attributed to the web(web 2.0) arises from us as we begin to communicate. Thus, when we talk of the ‘Intelligent web’ or ‘harnessing collective intelligence’ – we are talking of the familiar principle of wisdom of crowds Merely managing a community is not web 2.0! as many web 2.0 masqeraders will find out no doubt soon. In order to harness collective intelligence a) Information must flow freely b) It must be harnessed/processed in some way – else it remains a collection of opinions and not knowledge c) From a commercial standpoint, there must be a way to monetise the ‘long tail’ – but that’s the topic of another blog! My essential argument is – if we consider web 2.
