Emerging standards and technologies to watch for the Social Web

Here’s another useful (maybe must-read) post from Dion Hinchcliffe. I like it because it covers and predicts the coming changes facing those institutions in adapting to a technologically-aided social and cultural sphere:

The Social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

The Social Web Challenges of 2010: A List

1. Fragmentation of conversation.
2. Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.
3. A better social Web on mobile devices.
4. Lack of control of identity, contacts, and data.
5. Difficulty of coherently engaging in social activity across many channels.
6. Poor integration between social media and location services. .
7. Coping with and getting value from the expanding information volume of social media.

Four aspects of social Web evolution

1. Open activity streams.
2. Portable identity, contacts, and data.
3. Better social and location capabilities added to the core of mobile devices.
4. Better distributed models for the social Web.

Read the whole article.

Stephen