On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:51:09PM -0500, Wes Felter wrote: > All of your arguments sound valid to me, but then I imagine applying > them to blogs. Blogs won't work unless they're all on a centralized > controlled site. Yet Technorati and Google Blog Search work with the > decentralized Web. I can imagine an alternate history where instead of > Flickr we got "Flickrati", a photo aggregator rather than a photo host. > Of course, in actual history Flickr came first and it's not clear to me > that it's possible for a decentralized "Flickrati" to compete.
That is a fair argument. There are hundreds of examples where larger sites aggregate personal content from the rest of the Web. Indeed, the sites that host the personal content are essentially the content specific "banks" that people are already using. Blogger, YouTube, and Flickr… Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.autonomo.us http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss
