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The algorithm can make social media really weird While it seems the digital world is becoming more real-time, traditional social media is becoming more algorithm-driven and can lead to some weird posts. For example, here is a post from a friend that I saw earlier this year. The post appeared for me a few days after it was posted, and I have literally no idea what it was referring to.More recently was this one from another friend. It feels Olympics-related, but it was from a few days prior to ...
The Sunday Summary: Social media followers, value, and half-baked ideas
In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. **Mon, May 6: The value of having social media followers is plummeting**More social networks are starting to move to algorithms that prioritize content over followers, meaning any piece of content has a chance to do well (or fail), regardless the number of followers that you have. **Tue, May 7: Value is what people perceive it to be**What is “value” to you? It’s what...
The Sunday Summary: Brave browsing, experience, Beeper, and gratefulness
The Sunday Summary: Brave browsing, experience, Beeper, and gratefulness In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. Mon, June 3: A Brave new browser In an attempt to slowly de-Google my life, I’ve moved from Chrome to Brave for my daily browsing, and it was a pretty easy move. Tue, June 4: Do your years of experience matter? Having experience can be helpful, but it quickly becomes less helpful if you’re just ...
The algorithm can make social media really weird
The algorithm can make social media really weird While it seems the digital world is becoming more real-time, traditional social media is becoming more algorithm-driven and can lead to some weird posts. For example, here is a post from a friend that I saw earlier this year. The post appeared for me a few days after it was posted, and I have literally no idea what it was referring to.More recently was this one from another friend. It feels Olympics-related, but it was from a few days prior to ...
The Sunday Summary: Social media followers, value, and half-baked ideas
In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. **Mon, May 6: The value of having social media followers is plummeting**More social networks are starting to move to algorithms that prioritize content over followers, meaning any piece of content has a chance to do well (or fail), regardless the number of followers that you have. **Tue, May 7: Value is what people perceive it to be**What is “value” to you? It’s what...
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The internet is changing rapidly, thanks to big shifts in social media and the ongoing wave of AI. Websites have largely remained the same in recent years, staying strong as the home for every business on the internet. I don’t think that will be changing anytime soon, but the nature of the sites themselves may begin to shift.
In a recent blog post, Jeremiah Owyang had some interesting predictions for where AI could be leading, I found two to be quite interesting. The first:
As AI Agents become the dominant entities on the internet, website owners will cater to them by offering Agent APIs that instantly provide information to our AI agents, rather than simulating a human click path as AI agents do today.
In short, if we’re using AI to accomplish tasks (“ChatGPT, how do I solve this problem?”), websites will need to be able provide information to other AI bots and not just humans.
However, I think this will largely be a separate layer. Many websites use APIs today (interfaces to help tools connect together), and those will simply become more robust. The main front-end of a website can remain human-focused, and the APIs can work hard to serve AI bots.
Owyang also said:
Websites won’t go away, but they will need to evolve. When humans visit websites, the content could be AI-generated and personalized to the individual user. The era of thousands of web pages is no longer needed.
This is where the front-end of websites may shift in the coming years. The challenge will be knowing enough about each user to be able to properly customize the page to their needs. This is easy for sites where you log in (the content that you see on Facebook is clearly customized to your needs), but it’s more difficult for open sites.
While it feels like websites have tons of data on us, and some do, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get all of that info summarized. For a website to be able to really customize the content via AI, it’d need to know a lot about you instantly, which is an idea that’s actually
The internet is changing rapidly, thanks to big shifts in social media and the ongoing wave of AI. Websites have largely remained the same in recent years, staying strong as the home for every business on the internet. I don’t think that will be changing anytime soon, but the nature of the sites themselves may begin to shift.
In a recent blog post, Jeremiah Owyang had some interesting predictions for where AI could be leading, I found two to be quite interesting. The first:
As AI Agents become the dominant entities on the internet, website owners will cater to them by offering Agent APIs that instantly provide information to our AI agents, rather than simulating a human click path as AI agents do today.
In short, if we’re using AI to accomplish tasks (“ChatGPT, how do I solve this problem?”), websites will need to be able provide information to other AI bots and not just humans.
However, I think this will largely be a separate layer. Many websites use APIs today (interfaces to help tools connect together), and those will simply become more robust. The main front-end of a website can remain human-focused, and the APIs can work hard to serve AI bots.
Owyang also said:
Websites won’t go away, but they will need to evolve. When humans visit websites, the content could be AI-generated and personalized to the individual user. The era of thousands of web pages is no longer needed.
This is where the front-end of websites may shift in the coming years. The challenge will be knowing enough about each user to be able to properly customize the page to their needs. This is easy for sites where you log in (the content that you see on Facebook is clearly customized to your needs), but it’s more difficult for open sites.
While it feels like websites have tons of data on us, and some do, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get all of that info summarized. For a website to be able to really customize the content via AI, it’d need to know a lot about you instantly, which is an idea that’s actually
Owyang’s article is quite short, and I encourage you to give it a read. How do you see websites changing in the coming years?
Owyang’s article is quite short, and I encourage you to give it a read. How do you see websites changing in the coming years?
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