Posts Tagged ‘Feeds’

Feed Standardization Will Commoditize Feed Aggregation, So Let's Create The Semantic Web!

-Facebook Feed Icon-Below is some of my personal theory on the semantic web and feed aggregation. Please excuse the rambling :) .
As companies race to effectively aggregate our content an interesting thing is taking place: suddenly an aggregation of all our web-based activities are available via multiple sites on the web. Personally, I have information aggregated at MyBloglog, FriendFeed, Facebook, and many of my activities also show up on Twitter. So with this information everywhere where’s the value add?

At one point, aggregation services that found you news or information related to your friends provided a valuable service, incentivizing you to return to the site in order to get the latest information about what’s going on in your world. Unfortunately, much of that information in now aggregated all over the web and the aggregation service is no longer the core value.
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