The semanticization of people
Had breakfast with Joe Greenstein from Flixster and we talked about the future of web destinations. I agree with Fred Wilson– it’s the data, stupid.
That data gets far more interesting when attached to people. Why settle for the results of Yahoo Term Extractor, when we can attach highly structured data from sources like Flixster, iLike and Shelfari?
Once we turn people into highly structured lists of what they produce and consume, the sky’s the limit (privacy issues aside). I imagine that’s where the semantic web guys are headed. Maybe the lifestream folks will get there first.
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Update: Just reread this post and I want to clarify that I am in no way calling Joe an idiot. Good job, Eric. Way to make the friends 
