Lo plantea Stephen Downes en The Semantic Social Network:
Two types of technologies are about to merge. The technologies are content syndication, used by blogging websites around the world, and social networking, employed by sites such as Friendster and Orkut. They will merge to create a new type of internet, a network within a network, and in so doing reshape the internet as we know it.
El valor añadido que suponen las redes sociales para Internet como sistema caótico de información es lo que subyace a la estrategia de Google con Blogger y con Orkut, es lo que podemos experimentar con Blogdigger y con Eurekster, y es lo que estamos haciendo con Bloglines: construir socialmente conocimiento mediante la Red.
