Why is the web navigation interesting?
Web is huge. We can't even imagine it' size. As it grows, new methods and techniques of search, navigation and orientation are emerging. Are we going the right direction? Do you really feel that you have access to the essential content offered on the web? Are there some trends or tweaks how you could improve your orientation in this organic mass of content? If you are interested in this topics, you would probably find some valuable information in articles and related content of this blog.
Now, let's come down to earth. There are a few reasons why you can be interested in this topic. You may be interested in fast gaining of various information about current events. You may be interested in deep knowledge about people, places or historical events. You may also find usage of current search engines and catalogs boring and uncomfortable. I was thinking this way too. Computers are getting smarter (or at least they can pretend to be smart) and they have great computing power, so why do we still have to struggle through vain content till we get to where we want to be? There is luck of integration of valuable services provided on the web. You are reading an article about EU economy and you find it interesting. What to do next? Google... Twitter... News portals... Wikipedia... Delicious... what if all these things would come much closer to the point of your interest? Now they are separate and distant like various candies in the candy shop. You want to taste? You have to move around, decide, try, decide again... until you find what you want - but don't forget that you must know what you want. What about if there was somebody to offer you a small but tasty candies, which you could easily try (of course without gaining weight :-) and enjoy or ask for another?
Way beyond
In these days, the orientation in the web is similar to the first case. We move around the web and try to find out what was that we wanted to find. Social networks had a great influence on this so now we are looking at the content that our friends like. But, world is bigger then our social network contacts (that doesn't mean they are useless - no, but they are more about fun than about serious improvement of orientation in the web). We want to be offered with the content ("candies") and we want to be offered by someone who knows what is interesting. That "someone" is the collective intelligence gathered in folksonomies like Twitter or Delicious. They provide source of information, but navigation requires more than that. The way how this information is served to the user plays important role. This is one the topics that will be discussed it in the web open space blog. You can expect discussion about real tools and solutions that will help you see deeper into the virtual space of the web.
Be prepared and stay connected ;-)
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