news.ycombinator.com• Jan 21, 2011• 1 min read
Ask HN: What's next in *social* Internet?Social media seems to be a hot topic but with a lot of tension from two aspects:(1) There is a lot of talk about developing and delivering more in social media. The more might be from things new in each of data sources, data manipulation techniques, Web sites, or companies. There might be more in just the content or in social search to find such content.(2) There is not much clarity about just how to have more in social media or just why to have it. For the "why", what users want it, and what would they do with it?Here are two examples of some of the recent talk about social media:First, here on HN is the thread:"Sergey Brin: We’ve Touched 1 Percent Of What Social Search Can Be (techcrunch.com)"athttp://techcrunch.com/2011/01/20/sergey-brin-weve-touched-1-percent-of-what-social-search-can-be/Second, is the thread "Building Better Social Graphs" at Fred Wilsons blog A VC* at:http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/01/building-better-social-graphs.html#disqus_threadwith a lot of relatively good rel
