With the proliferation of the read/write web, the Internet has become an enormous space holding too much information. In my previous post I talked about the concept of solidary community intelligence raising the issue of interaction and how information should be organized.
A possible solution to the problem is the combination of a “Content Hub” and a “Personalized Content Dispatcher”.
The main function of the “Content Hub” is to scan sources of information supplied by users and to extract new content as it appears. That way all the content can be queried and accessed through a single query. That’s something search engines. Thanks God we have them!
The “Personalized Content Dispatcher” goes one step forward, delivering to users the information they are interested in. And I say deliver, push rather than pull. Of course, you can always go to a search engine and search for the information you are interested in, but user profiles are quite complicated and so they involve too many different queries. Moreover, users do not usually have time to go and search that information, let alone go again and again through the same results to find a new relevant result. That’s why we need an intelligent way to look for that information in the “Content Hub” and personalize the delivery on a user’s basis with a “Personalized Content Dispatcher”.
There will still be a master piece missing that will enrich the system: “Intelligent Content Discovery”. What the hell does that mean you may ask. The answer is pretty simple, the system MUST suggest new sources of content to users based on their profile. That way, the system takes care of everything, users just need to define their profile, that is, what kind of information they are interested in (well, we could build profiles through a more complex process based on other information provided by users). The “Intelligent Content Discovery” could also use profile matching algorithms to group people in communities sharing the same interests and propose new content to users, by investigating the different sources defined by all the community users and that are not shared by all of them. This is something that I think we will start to see more and more in the near future as users contribute with more information to the community.
That’s the sort of problems we are trying to solve at 2or3things and for which we plan to provide solutions before the end of the year.
I’ll keep you posted.
