Web next?

I can't stop returning to the question about web 3.0, or web n+1, or web next. Everyone has the same problem today - they can contribute to many different places in web 2.0 - blogs (how many different options?), flickr, youtube, facebook, myspace, bebo, ning, twitter, linkedin, and so on...

But how to decide which ones to update, when? How to decide which ones to follow for updates from your social and professional network?

The answer is pretty simple - there is NO real answer today! Tomorrow I will be able to go to a single screen (remember the first time you used netscape browser?), and instead of looking for information I will be able to share information without having to decide where it should go - that's what clever software should do, decide based on the characteristics of what I am sharing, perhaps suggesting tags and/or destinations which I can then edit if I have changes I wish to make.

We were working on something similar to this inside Sun before I left there, and hopefully that development will some day reach the light of day in an open format which can be used by a broader audience. Until then, you might follow Peter Reiser's blog in blogs.sun.com for further developments, or provide your own suggestions of where this work is being done.