Amit Kapur, former COO of MySpace, has a fascinating short item today entitled "The Future Will Be Personalized" (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/the-future-will-be-personalized/ Nov 16th, 2010). He has a terrific graph about signal-to-noise ratios and information production and overload. And he identifies various new technologies coming out of academia as a remedy for the near-impending collapse of our human ability to sift through the deluge of data. Identifed solutions include, in particular, natural language processing and semantic technologies. . . . read more