The key to the Private Web is notification, not the actual content. The social signals that enable or disable connections are the new PageRank. It’s not a link but the ability to see the metadata that describes a link’s immediate value that’s valuable.
That’s what Deborah Schultz of Altimeter Group cautioned OMMA attendees, emphasizing that thinking of social media as a marketing platform — in and of itself — is a big “mistake.” “It think this is a huge mistake,” she said. “It is a major shift. It may have an advertising component in it, but it is not just a marketing channel.