Seth Godin has written an excellent piece on what he calls web4. It’s particularly excellent because it describes exactly the kind of thing I’m starting work on now. This is the best part:

LinkedIn tends to make networks that are sprawling and weak. Web4 is about smaller, far more intense connections with trusted colleagues and their activities. It’s a tribe.

Exactly. Digg is next to useless for my use, because it is too big and full of people I don’t trust. It’s not that they are necessarily untrustworthy, I just don’t trust that they know what to recommend to me.

If Seth Godin says he has read a great new book on marketing, I’d be sure to take notice. If he recommends a good book on painting, I’d probably ignore him.

My article on ‘Socialising the eBooks‘ gives an example of how this could work for one example.

Seth’s article is here

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