The Defunct User Revolution
February 10, 2011
While browsing the Web, my daily Web aggregator provided me with this story from the Fast Forward Blog: “Retro: What Happened to the User Revolution?” Back in 2008, the Fast Search and Technology had an annual event about Enterprise 2.0. The entire focus was revolutionizing the search and breaking down barriers set forth by other search solutions, etc. Everyone was really excited about the change they were going to create and then it fizzed out.
At this conference, FAST focused its energies on the interaction space between user and information. It wanted to create precise metadata based off a usage, tags, social implications, and have the blending of structured/unstructured data. Three pillars of future search technology were brought up as well:
“The next generation technology for FAST has three pillars, three cornerstones…content [how can we aggregate it]…the user [search moves from being an API for content to something that can be managed directly]…a search core [changing the physics of search].”
Everyone was really excited about the change they were going to create and then it fizzed out. This exact technology hasn’t been invented yet and, frankly, I find the assertions unusual. From my 2011 perch, the FAST topics are unstructured ideas for inspiration—in one ear and forgotten by the next speech.
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Torben Ellert, February 10, 2011
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