Latent semantic indexing could be one of the technologies used to create the Google "EPIC" talked about in the viral video campaign: http://epic.lightover.com/

This video is well worth watching if you have not seen it. it predicts that in the year 2014, the New York Times has gone off-line- replaced by somethinhg called Google EPIC.

If you do not have time to watch the video you may read a brief summary about EPIC, also known as Evolving Personalized Information Construct.

Also worthy of mention this week is the March issue of Business 2.0 magazine.They talk about remix culture
describing it as "mashups and filters".

To summarize the article:

"The Next Net will encompass all digital devices, from PC to cell phone to television. Its defining characteristics include the ability to interact instantaneously with any of the more than 1 billion Web users across the globe. The Next Net is deeply collaborative: People from across the planet can work together on the same task, and products or tools can be rapidly tweaked and improved by the collective wisdom of the entire online world."

The top 25 are presented in four broad categories:

Social Media (Digg, Last.fm, Newsvine, Tagworld, YouTube)
Mashups and Filters (Bloglines, Eurekster, Simply Hired, Technorati, Trulia, Wink)
The New Phone (Fonality, SIPphone, iotum, Vivox)
The Webtop (JotSpot, 30Boxes, 37Signals, Writely, Zimbra)
Under the Hood (Brightcove, Jigsaw, Salesforce.com, SimpleFeed, Six Apart).

- Russell Wright