The Smarter, Semantic Web: Privacy Threat or Solution?

Description

There are some amazing offerings to the consumer that come packaged with the next generation of web technology:

- A Semantic Desktop, for intuitive file organization
- Cloud computing means access to your files anywhere, anytime
- OpenID means not having to juggle multiple username/passwords

It's a personal digital assistant for your personal digital life. It knows about you... your passwords, your interests, your files, and what you don't even realize you are looking for. This personal data will become more cataloged, more collected, easier to access.

The question is... if it is so easy for me to access, who else can access my digital life?

Over the next week, I am going to be looking at how the next generation web will change the way you connect, discover, and share with the social online world. I'm also going to be looking at how this movement is going to make marketing more relevant and measurable.

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