Peter Gabriel Is Your Web 3.0 Savior

April 15, 2008

Jason Harper,

No longer merely your sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel is now your web news aggregator. Today, the former Genesis singer and — many believe — GOD launched his (and his co-investors’) newly redesigned “recommendation engine” The Filter.

As Gabe explained to CNET:

“When you drown people in an ocean of information, you’ve got to give them navigation tools,” Gabriel said. “I know that there is better stuff out there than what I generally am exposed to… So if I have a sort of intelligent ally working with me 24 hours a day, I think I have a much better chance of getting the stuff that will entertain, excite, and inspire me.”

Basically, using algorithims and magic spells, The Filter finds entertainment content on the web it thinks you’ll like so that you don’t have dig for it yourself.

One thing you still gotta do yourself, however…