Tagging the net might be the next "killer application", because tags, when handled appropriately, can not only replace some functions of the domain names, but even extend their capabilities.

Of course, the author means ContextSensitiveTags in social annotation systems like DiiGo, TrailFire and other providers.

Let us take an example: if you Google:IBM and then again Google:iBM, the author thought: you won't find any difference in the search result, because this search-engine doesn't care for case-sensitivity. Hey it does. Perhaps Google is the first one to support case in their service.

Imagine IBM (TM) now offers a rival product to Apple (TM), called iBM (don't know if it is an anticipative trademark of IBM yet). Most of us now have probably the well established association, aha a new iPOD (TM) rival to Apple is there, this time with the association, "smaller and with the power of a mainframe", in accordance with rumors that IBM has new methods of revolutionary 3D memory-chips in development.

The author documents this marketing idea in his blog and donates the idea to his fellow wikizens. If somebody of our peers now has a good wire to IBM, this could be a factor in his/her career at IBM. If you have been reading the author's blogs, you could have had the idea some hours earlier.

Now for the OpenBusiness aspect of TagTheNet: In the same sense as IBM discovers new opportunities to reduce their advertising costs, leaving more money for their "own" peers, each community peer in a social annotation community has:

• the equal opportunity to promote his/her ideas, concepts, products, services
• as a community based OpenBusiness
• working like a HoofSmith

There is one important feature of domain-names, that in the forseeable future probably can't be replaced by the TagTheNet approach. It is the verifiable OnlineIdentity, based on domain-names, i.e. the DomainBasedRealName.

-- FridemarPache

Discussion:

• the author recommends to buy catchy domain-names and to contribute as many helpful ideas, concepts and tools to be part of the open wealth-creating process in the sense of CreateAndShareWealth ( work in progress, must go swimming now ) -- [fridemar]

Google:TagTheNet, DiiGo http://www.diigo.com/user/fridemar/tagthenet, TrailFire http://trailfire.com/fridemar/marks/105813, Wiki:TagTheNet