was about content
and wikipedia has mostly solved
that problem
necessary web 2.0
will be about generalising
interface insights
so that all web2.0 apps share
all the predictable functionality
something google
could bootstrap into beta
within a year, i'd bet
starting from google pagecreator (GgPC)
for creating all manner of webpage
which offers authors
a private view of all their hosted pages
as a list or icon-grid
sorted by name or date
which ought to be available as well
as a public view
(effectively a changelog-blog)
and GgPC could/should also
automatically archive earlier versions
of each page, allowing authors
to reonstruct their state
on any given day
and if each created page
includes a short summary/description
and/or an illustrative pullquote
and/or a 'pull-image'
and/or a summary of recent changes
then that public blog-view
could also include
some or all of these
and the author herself
could customise a 'recommended' blog-view
of site updates
suppressing minor changes
promoting major ones
and even quoting short pages in full
which already cannibalises
most of the functionality
of blogger.com
(which should, itself
open to the public
the author's private, sortable
list-view of post titles)
but we can also add to each page
a set of topic designations or tags
which google could treat
as postings to GgGroups topic areas
(tag = topic = group)
and pages that refer/respond
to other pages
can include the URLs of those 'parent' pages
as topic/tag/groups, as well
so google can trace discussion threads
without the original authors even needing
to turn commenting on
and if this can be streamlined enough
google could let websurfers
rate every page they visit
(openly, or anonymously)
and aggregate these ratings as well
offering now a link-blog view
of all a surfer's ratings
(eg above a threshold level)
to support all this
the GgGroups interface needs to streamline
back to an ajax re-implementation
of the pre-WWW goldenage newsreader 'trn'
where you'd subscribe to
groups/topics/tags/urls/authors/communities
with killfile filters
to minimise annoying noise
and encouraging blogging-community experiments
like slashdot/digg/linkfilter/memepool
.
