<![CDATA[Ming the Mechanic: Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain:
…instead of just a bunch of free-form text and pictures on millions of webpages, we tag things in more finegrained detail as to what it is. This is a name, this is a country, this is a movie, this is a quote, etc. If that was done with all the data on the net, amazing new things will be possible.
This relates to the previous post about the Google Auto Linker (which sounds like it has something to do with cars, but it doesn’t) and the map I put up the other day. There’s a new form of browsing just round the corner.]]>