Hindsight is 20/20
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Philip Jacob
The seeds for del.icio.us were planted here, way back in 1998.
Another wonderful quote from the same document written all those years ago:
Recently a new web indexing service was developed at Stanford University by the name of Google which is based on the debatably innovative idea of determining a document’s significance based on the significance of documents that link to it. *
I’d like to think that the debate referenced in the quote above is over, but I don’t believe that it is. Google seems more and more like a sparkly, shiny short-term hack to a very big problem.