tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704551.post114030453009919853..comments2023-06-16T08:36:30.489-04:00Comments on Shiny Things Distract Us: Who the hell am I? For that matter, who the hell are you? And how do you keep track?Fraxashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01250589389977400643noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704551.post-1143420377125064622006-03-26T19:46:00.000-05:002006-03-26T19:46:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704551.post-1140591945087091802006-02-22T02:05:00.000-05:002006-02-22T02:05:00.000-05:00External social networks sound like an interesting...External social networks sound like an interesting problem because they're of very little inherent value unless you can also see what the nodes you link to are linked to.<BR/><BR/>FOAF kind of addresses that, but who's got time for FOAF? (A cookie to the person that can explain OWL/RDF/RDFS to me) And for that matter, FOAF doesn't really give you any interesting knowledge about the nodes of your nodes.<BR/><BR/>Also, it sounds like loaf, which makes me giggle.Dan Nugenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17024579990613770367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704551.post-1140571210176245782006-02-21T20:20:00.000-05:002006-02-21T20:20:00.000-05:00Yeah, everyone has this problem. While I suspect i...Yeah, everyone has this problem. While I suspect it'll never get "really" solved, there is hope at least being able export your info from each site.<BR/><BR/>For example, you can export your blogroll from bloglines and upload it into feedlounge because they have an OPML export. There's been work to even synch up keeping track of what you've read.<BR/><BR/>The problem to solve isn't a technological one, but a business one: how can groups of people make money off their software if users can seemlessly move from site to site?<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, we can look towards things that layer on top of the web like Flock, greasemonkey, or something else...and you'd probably need to give over passwords.<BR/><BR/>Someone left a comment about <A HREF="http://www.suprglu.com" REL="nofollow">which is working out for me so far</A>. Hopefully there'll be more stuff out there.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16597390240618676147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704551.post-1140494101822774642006-02-20T22:55:00.000-05:002006-02-20T22:55:00.000-05:00the problem with handing over my keys to a 3rd par...the problem with handing over my keys to a 3rd party to reskin and reaggregate my social networks is that then, there's a single organization out there that has all my keys. Kinda not the point of having separate identities.Fraxashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01250589389977400643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704551.post-1140476153699263162006-02-20T17:55:00.000-05:002006-02-20T17:55:00.000-05:00I've been getting a bit annoyed by this as well - ...I've been getting a bit annoyed by this as well - not only in managing my online identities but in managing *my* social network.<BR/><BR/>The social networking stuff out there - Friendster, Orkut, mySpace, Yahoo360, etc. - are all fine and all, but they only track your network *internal* to their network. <BR/><BR/>Maybe with a halfassed nod towards blogrolling (love bloglines, but if a site doesn't have an RSS feed, you can't store it's URL in your blogroll. Gah!).<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, there are folks I want to link to across these various networks (and in NO networks), and it wouldn't bug me in the least to hand the keys to a plethora of these systems over to a meta-tracking system that gave me a re-skinned view of *my* social network.<BR/><BR/>Confounding!Jeff Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04619334976438544593noreply@blogger.com