I thought it would be helpful for me to post some of my longer responses to other blogs. Here we go...
Response to Blog Herald article (http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/26/yahoo-opens-360-to-outside-blogging-sites-end-of-blogging-strategy-for-yahoo/) on July 26, 2005 about Yahoo 360’s new feed features and supposedly breaking down the walled garden:It looks like my buddy Jon on our blog is officially an opinion leader since Yahoo 360 has announced that users can publish to their Yahoo 360 from other services using RSS as well as other alerts. This makes sense for Yahoo to be the one pushing for breaking down the walled garden; after all, they have nothing to lose given they don’t have a social network. And after all, maybe that is part of the company’s strategy: don’t buy a social network because that puts you in the bind of having to protect the walled garden. Instead, move towards what seems like a historical likely scenario, which is exactly what Jon’s blog post talks about here: http://www.minorityrapport.com/2005/07/breaking_out_of.html
The above poster makes a good point about Yahoo not letting content out. Without knowing for certain, it seems that if Yahoo can use RSS to permit publishing from outside sources to its site, then why couldn’t those affected services do the same thing?
On a bigger issue, is this just a step in the direction of letting users pull off their profiles and inputting them into other services? Less reputable companies and fly-by-nighters have tried this and mostly failed, but more because they were too ambitious in their mining of other social networks. If they had stuck to letting users simply transfer their profiles, it may have worked out fine.
Response to techdirt article (http://techdirt.com/articles/20050718/127249.shtml) on Monday, July 25, 2005 at 8 a.m. about Murdoch buying MySpace and the implications for use of adaware properties attached to it:
I do not see News Corp keeping the adaware properties. Given News Corp really cares about the network, what I am more interested in is how they will leverage its media properties on the site. Certainly American Idol comes to mind as a great cross-promotion. MySpace had set it up (as) a new medium for media companies to advertise to its young demographic; instead of having to test that, which would have meant potentially spending a couple years to get media companies to buy into the model and believe in the metrics that would show results from such advertising (perhaps the number of members that have added a show's star as a friend), Fox's acquisition of MySpace has accelerated the value mining of social networks. This bodes well for other popular social networks because Fox will be able stretch their collective imagination to take advantage of the social network, without concern for paying MySpace as Fox figures out using a bit of trial and error what works best.
Response to oreilly article (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/my_real_social.html) on July 19, 2005 at 7:28 a.m. about analyzing our social behavior in the workplace according to electronic communication in an opt-out architecture:
Your comment is interesting and I can see where such a service could be applied right now to individuals. It would be an application that analyzes the information you are talking about, then tells you who you have been connecting with and who you haven't, giving us ques to make a conscious effort to contact those people we deem important to stay connected with.
That said, I don't think this would hold up as well to force everyone in a workplace to utilize this kind of application. People aren't ready to accept it yet. But an app for an individual I think would be an important first step in that incremental change.
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