“Information discovery problem”? Give me a break.
Do you have a hard time finding information online?
I don’t. If anything, there’s too much information online.
Which is why I scratched my head this morning after reading what the founders of YouTube are remodeling. In short, they bought an old web linking website in hopes of turning it around.
“Twitter sees something like 200 million tweets a day, but I I can’t even read 1,000 a day,” complained YouTube’s Steve Chen. Seemingly in between bouts of “Mine! Mine! Mine!” he added, “There’s a waterfall of content that you’re missing out on [and] a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, but no one has got it right yet.”
Information discovery problem?
Maybe a few thousand Silicon Valley nerds have that problem. But the vast majority of us have no problem finding information online.
As I’ve said before, “Whether online or off, the cream of life always rises to the top. The best status updates and news transcend the Internet.”
What more do you non-contributing zeros want?
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Completely agree.
Finding information online = easy.
But I do think there is a ton of room for high-quality, original content. Not that it doesn’t exist, there’s just not enough. There probably can’t be enough. So, I’m not sure there’s a need for new/more information aggregators as much as their is a need for more information.
IMO, the Internet has hit its growing pains. Yahoo is a great example. Yahoo has tons of great products: Flickr, yahoo groups, yahoo stocks, yahoo news, etc with tons of loyal users. Yahoo just can’t seem to fit them all together in a way that makes sense and makes money.
I have no idea what I’m trying to say, other than something missing and it’s not aggregators.