The splintering of social has barely begun.
Before long, we might have a slew of new reading tools, with different ideas about how to display and organize posts. We might have new content moderation systems. We might have an entire industry of algorithms, where people compete not to make the best posts but to show them in the most interesting order. Modern social networks are not a single product but a giant bundle of features, and the next generation of tools might be all about unbundling.
via The Verge
if you turned a browser history — the most neglected piece of the software — into a robust and fully featured machine of its own. It would help you map the path you charted through a web of knowledge, refine those maps, order them, and share them.
There’s going to be an AI assistant that will do this.
I would guess a chat interface for user-driven queries. But can also see a browser extension that annotates or highlights areas of the current page you’re looking at with references to related pieces from your history.
Like a personal knowledge graph with real time node connecting.
Did you know shopping season is starting? Looks like Google does.
Big G has rolled out some new features that could have a bigger impact than just this Q4.
First, a deals page for shoppers:
Search “shop deals” to access
Make sure to audit your deals in Merchant Center, Chrome now has tools that will show shoppers when “an active promotion is available.”
But the big one, no more pricing games to make deals seem better than they are. Chrome’s new shopping insights “will show that product’s typical price range and a price history graph for up to the last 90 days.” Plus price drop alerts.