Michael Orshan wrote: > Now just because some content is out there doesn't mean people will flock to > it. That requires advertising and traffic. One thing that makes me a little cranky is that, from the perspective of the web, social networking sites seem to be hosted by commercial entities. They provide some virtual cocktails and sofas to coax people in, but from the point of view of search engines like Google, they are opaque and unsearchable. The social networks they build are their intellectual property.
In contrast, if they were robot indexable using, say, semantic web technologies there will be little need for advertising as almost any peer group would be a click away to anyone have a few milligrams of curiosity. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
