Scattered data

Software Will Emerge to Tame Social Networking's "Cacophony of the Crowds." The sudden expansion of social networking will lead to a tsunami of unstructured data. This will lead to the emergence of "Eureka 2.0" software that combines text analytics, sentiment extraction, and related technologies to distill the "wisdom of crowds."

Of course there are many others predictions for 2008, even in the blog post where I have taken this fragment, like more gadget devices to come (kindle...), and less money to be invested as economy seems to block, but this is the matter I'm interested on: what kind of software will bring some help for people and communities with scattered data in order to manage digital identity...