Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Web 3.0: last hype?


Everyone is blogging about the last article by John Markoff, in the NYT. A good report you find in Mikele's post, and an enthusiastic explanation in Roin Good's post -- also availabel in Spanish and Italian.

I just tried Opine, and I have two remarks: (1) the language menu doesn't work at all, at least in Italian. I switched to Italian, then I typed "Roma alberghi" and it didn't understand. Bad design: let a menu if and only if it works, otherwise don't put it, they say; (2) trust everyone's opinion as Opine seems to do implies a terrible risk to have positive feedback, i.e. everyone finally has the same, stupid opinion. I don't think democracy or web 3.0 is equal to "majority rules", and no more.

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