On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:37:37PM -0500, Hunger wrote: > Systems like XMPP are considered important (and increasingly important) by > those who care because cross-provider communication appears to be a dying > phenomenon. The remarkable thing about “Web 1.0″ (and specifically the > personal home page and email) is that you can link to anybody or anything > you want and you can send a message to anybody you want. It doesn’t > matter who is hosting your website and it doesn’t matter who your email > provider is. The same is not true for many implementations of “Web > 2.0.” If you’re on Facebook but not on MySpace, and your friend’s on > MySpace but not on Facebook, how do you link to him (i.e., tell people you > are friends)? How do you send him a message? (Or, how do I respond to > President Obama’s tweets if I’m not on Twitter? How do I join the > Facebook group for my favorite political cause if I’m not on Facebook? > And what are the implications when membership in a closed and private > service is a prerequisite for political engagement?) The great irony about > “Web 2.0″ is that it is a step back in many ways; even AOL — who, of > course, controlled much of Web 1.0 — let you send email to non-AOL users.
This whole email was really interesting. Thanks for sharing! Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss
