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April 25, 2005
Do we need structure to find our data
I have been using Google mail for the past few months and right know I am seriously thinking of using it as my main mail-box (if interested and want to receive an invitation send me an email at hazigh@gmail.com). I am now using del.icio.us for storing my bookmarks on the web. Also giving a whirl to flickr for storing my pictures. The common thread to all these sites is tagging and search capabilities. They have done away with folders and I can tag to my heart?~@~Ys content my emails, bookmarks, and pictures. Further with del.icio.us and flickr I can share my stuff with family, freinds and why not strangers (as Scott McNealy said you have zero privacy anyway, "Get over it"). With the advent of Desktop search (Google, Copernic and soon to be released Exalead), which I believe is going to be the next must have killer app, I don?~@~Yt have to worry about where on the hard disk the file is being stored. This is the view expounded by Sergey Brin (no structure) of Google, which is in contrast with Tim Berners-lee wanting to wrap everything in a tight structure. As usual we are all stuck in the middle nd Exalead search may be a middle ground solution after all in our daily life with live with implicit structured tags. More on Exalead in a few days.
Posted by Hazi at April 25, 2005 12:37 PM