Digital transformation is heavily taking shape. Large and small organizations are battling the outburst of data and trying to derive meaningful information from structured and un-structured data. Behind all these, publicly facing collaborative applications, mainly social media tools are streaming heavy volumes of data. If enterprises miss these streaming of data being sucked into their revenue generating blood stream, they may not be able to row across to the tresure island. On the other hand social media cold wars are being fought. At times, we see a heavy weight integration and at other times we see light weight integration such as just the OAUTH types. These integrations at times make us believe that there are no wars being fought but everybody are in for making money. So be it. We are now going through a second generation social media wave.
Independent study in coordination with stencil research highlights and reiterate that we will eventually be replicating content at mega volumes. So far it was just proliferation of content across the internet. But now a new wave is sweeping the internet and that is, system defined algorithms that replicates content by deciding which content will be good for you and this content will be delivered and so will it be delivered to thousands of other people. All of a sudden you become part of a chain who will all be seeing same content and you will all start to think in a similar way. Your views on politics, people and places will all be the same. Petty soon you will start living in a world where you were not there in the first place. Sounds all very paranoid right? Read on. Continue reading