Facebook and subscriptions
Dave Winer,
Scripting News,
Dec 07, 2011
As Dave Winer reports, Facebook has launched a 'subscriptions' feature using a button that looks exactly like the RSS button in wide use around the web. The Facebook subscriptions system is part of that 'giant sucking sound' keeping everything in-house rather than distributed across the internet. It's just part of the ongoing effort by Facebook and Google to kill the open internet. But as Winer says, "The answer isn't to stop Facebook, even if you could. The correct response is to use this impetus to get an open solution organized and developed asap so we're not all dependent on Facebook to get the news to people who want to read it." Agreed. More here (though the link was failing this afternoon).
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