The Barriers of Content and Context
Stowe Boyd,
Darwin Online,
Feb 05, 2004
Yes! "None of the leading social technology solutions allow users to pull information in the form of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds into a news aggregator. This is a model widely adopted by blogging solutions, and one that cries out to be integrated into social networking apps." Simplistic, unidimensional, context insensitive social networking applications (or any application, for that matter) misrepresent the potential benefit of the technology and fuel the inevitable backlash. Also: "The solution to this is likely to lie with a standard way to express relationship information, such as the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) XML approach." Yes, exactly. Via elearnspace.
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