Give Winer The Billion
- Posted on: Sep. 12, 2007
- 14 Comments
RSS is Social Media.
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Posted in 1938 Media, Dave Winer, Facebook, Social Media, Web 2.014 comments
I agree completely, except
FB and other social networking services are like well put-together blogging software, with video publishing etc. and RSS, search etc etc all in one place, for people who are more casual users than those of us who would use disparate services to build our own sites. Totally legit in my mind, and FB is what’s going to bring feeds to large numbers of people more than many things will.
ReplyBillion what?
ReplyMarshall, great points. Even though I can be one myself, I sometimes forget the dope factor. Most people are dopes.
I still think the blog/twitter/rss/widget combo on YOUR OWN SITE is better
ReplyDollars. Facebook is rumored to be raising that much.
ReplyHoly moly. Can’t they just get get a check from homeland security and the CIA?
ReplyEven though we live in this Google Reader world, blogging really skipped past most people and has now been replaced by Facebook in the dopesphere.
My friends and fam who’d never take the time/effort/trouble to go out and register a domain, start a hosted WordPress blog and manage the spam on it are using Facebook on a daily basis in the same way we’ve been using blogs.
Is Facebook, etc the end all be all? No. But as Marshall pointed out, it’s bringing RSS, presence updates and blogging functionality to the masses… and that is powerful shit.
ReplyYup. I get it Sam. You guys are right. Is it AOL again?
ReplyI dont get facebook either. I was a big myspace junkie…but I had a reason. I actually had two reasons.
1. I was in a band. If you are abnd without a myspace profile thats the same as not existing.
2. I was single. I was trolling for easy cybersex that my friends and i could laugh at. “Ya, of course I’m alone!”
Now that I dont have a fulltime band and I have a girlfriend I dont use the service anymore. I have a facebook profile, but I honestly did not want to go through all the bullshit to get “friends” again (i have over 3,000 on myspace).
I see why facebook is cool, but only because I can remember when myspace was cool. I am not as interested in cybersex, band spam, or “massconvo” like I used to.
HOLY SHIT. wait a fucking second…
massconvo?
Is that word cool? I just thought of it.
ReplyDead on. The concept of RSS in its current form is still very foreign to the masses and today it’s mostly seen as a way to get updated information without going to a website. But feed can be so much more if there was a great interface to access it (beyond today’s readers / widgets).
There’s so much power in the ability to create information that goes out, consolidate information that comes in, and manage/interact with it in a productive manner and repeat.
FB is ok at this but the main problem I have with FB is relevancy / importance. It’s all on the same level. Right now it’s novel to see everything that’s going on with everyone. That’s great for them b/c they want you to click around as much as possible to generate ad revenue. But seriously, do I need to be updated that my buddy from little league added some FB crapplication?
Replyfuckin weird dude. the wall on your left looks like a totally different shade of white than the one on the right of you.
ReplyI get Facebook and I like Facebook, but for those of us who DO “get it”, Facebook still doesn’t have enough RSS. It’s still too closed of a system. I hope it’s not AOL all over again, I hope it’s a better AOL.
ReplyI think you solved the problem in the middle of your video. It will take a few years before it is actually invented…
ReplyAlways enjoying hearing the other side of the Facebook argument!
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