Sometimes, my ego gets the better of me when I read an article like this. I morph into an immature teenager and must resist the urge to whine, “But I said that first!” I suppose I’ll take the path of a modern adult and blog about it instead – the 21st century method of whining, if you will.
Back in July of 2007, I wrote a market analysis for The Guidewire Report, snappily titled “You Can’t Spell Internet Without an ‘I’.” In it, I posited that the growing sector of recommendation “might very well be Web 3.0,” that “the era of the one-size-fits-all Web page was over” and the current Internet was being transformed into “an individually customizable Web.” If I really wanted to feed my ego, I could tell it that the Guardian writer was inspired by my lyrical prose. But of course I wasn’t the first to hypothesize that Web 3.0 is about personalization and recommendation and I won’t be the last.
At the time, Aggregate Knowledge, Loomia, and VortexDNA received mention as movers in the space. Since then, Aggregate Knowledge seems to have dropped off the radar a bit, while companies like Matchmine and Seethroo have offered their own takes on recommendation, as well as a fascinating service called Strings. Read the rest of this entry »
