DISQUS

Tim Aldiss · 5 months ago

In regards to your compelling analogy on memory bs conciousness - to my mind we have to be very careful how we rely on real time search without referencing what is already stored in, as it were, in memory. As a general observation (and speaking as a former knowledge manager) humans as a species have a very short term memory! Real time search won't improve this. My fears are that it will lead to more hasty, less researched assumptions.

brian · 5 months ago

Tim, excellent comment. There is also concern that Twitter is leading to hasty, unemotional responses - because we move to quickly to truly feel what passes before us. (I am no in this camp, but there are interesting studies out there.)

Mark · 5 months ago

how'd we jump from fifty cents to $5 billion?

GrowMap · 5 months ago

The best thing that ever happened for businesses of all sizes was the original pay per click (ppc) advertising (prior to expanded broad match making the ads less targeted and less economically feasible). What any Social Networking site should already be doing is making the very best of their user-generated content easy to locate and allowing only the most relevant ads to be purchased via ppc by businesses.

Just as AdWords makes up the majority of Google's income those ads could generate a handsome income. We could hope that, unlike Google, Yahoo, etc., keeping those ads highly relevant at rates that make financial sense to even small businesses would stay a priority.

I have written more about these concepts in posts about the Golden Days of PPC, why you can NOT rely on organic search, and on monetizing Twitter and other Social Media using targeted advertising.

Club Penguin Cheats · 1 day ago

Just as AdWords makes up the majority of Google's income those ads could generate a handsome income. We could hope that, unlike Google, Yahoo, etc., keeping those ads highly relevant at rates that make financial sense to even small businesses would stay a priority.