Thursday
Oct222009
It's all about finding stuff
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 6:38AM I have written before that the usefulness of the web is about learning and finding stuff, whether people or information. This becomes clear watching people use social tools inside organsations to ask "Where can I find the right person to help me do ...." or "Which is the document I should read to learn to ..."
Interesting therefore to read today this article about Sharepoint and enterprise search; that Bing and Google are to start indexing Twitter; and that Facebook is going to make public updates available to search.
Reader Comments (1)
I think 'people' are really the key to unlocking a lot of things for businesses and systems. I know lots have said before, "it's about people, not technology", but making people the absolute focus of the technology (people systems, and not, information and information systems, for example) is an interesting development of the concept. (Wrote about this recently in the context of intranets and have not stopped thinking about it since.)
Regarding Bing and Google indexing Twitter in 'real time', the question really is why has it taken so long?!
It's not inconceivable in the near future to think even more people will have a Twitter handle than a blog and a facebook page put together, for me it really does have that much potential, and as such the search engines would be mad not to do something (plus, Twitter's search is pretty rubbish). 'WebYou', 'People Web'? Who knows.... :-)