By Brian Bergstein, Technology Review
We’ve been living in the age of social media for a long time, but 2011 was the year that all the information we share online began to accrete into something greater than the sum of its parts. It is creating a layer of intelligence that anyone can mine in Web searches and that content creators can use to hone their services. This is happening more readily because sharing our opinions and photos and status updates online isn’t just a stand-alone application anymore—it’s now an activity embedded into other things.
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