The Next Big Thing: User-Contributed Metadata

Dan Farber has an interesting piece today about how user-contributed metadata will revolutionize online advertising. He mentions Facebook, Metaweb and Twine as examples. I agree, of course, with Dan’s thoughts on this, since these are some of the underlying motivations of Twine. The rich user-generated metadata in Twine is not just about users however, it’s about everything — products, companies, events, places, web pages, etc. The "semantic graph" we are building is far richer than a graph that is just about people. I’ll be blogging more about this in the future.

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4 Responses to The Next Big Thing: User-Contributed Metadata

  1. The Next Big Thing: User Contributed Metadata

    Dana Farber and Larry Dignan succinctly state the whole point behind my old Microsoft.com Community Technology

  2. The Next Big Thing: User Contributed Metadata

    Dana Farber and Larry Dignan succinctly state the whole point behind my old Microsoft.com Community Technology

  3. Beyond | IT says:

    » The next big thing: User-contributed metadata … and More…

    Kind of a “roundup” post. First, this user-contributed metadata business. More the evolution of loyalty

  4. Beyond | IT says:

    » The next big thing: User-contributed metadata … and More…

    Kind of a “roundup” post. First, this user-contributed metadata business. More the evolution of loyalty