roamin Net Neutrality

With so many different platforms to aggregate, noise levels are surging. An underlying issue in the level of noise is that some of these services were not made to interact with one another. Users of social aggregation tools should understand that what you may consider noise is actually a side-effect of using a social aggregation platform. Users should also note when you may be confusing aggregation with importation.

Though importation may be a necessary step within aggregation, there is a difference between the two. Importation is usually more selective and limited to the inclusion of select items of other services. This may include common specifics such as names, ages, and locations. However, with aggregation a service attempts to conglomerate key features and entire contents of other services. This makes aggregation seemingly more flexible due to it’s ability to encompass a wider scope of content.

Confusing Aggregation with Importation

Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media

ReadWriteWeb

posted : Sunday, May 11th, 2008

posted : Sunday, May 11th, 2008

posted : Sunday, May 11th, 2008

posted : Sunday, May 11th, 2008

posted : Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Smokeyyy (behind the scenes) (via Mareen Fischinger)
Smokeyyy (behind the scenes) (via Mareen Fischinger)

posted : Saturday, May 10th, 2008

“ oEmbed is a newly released spec from Cal Henderson (of Flickr), Mike Malone and Leah Culver (of Pownce), and Richard Crowley (of OpenDNS) that allows web sites to quickly and easily embed media when a user posts a link directly to that resource. oEmbed is an open format which standardizes the process of embedding photos, videos, links, or other media and circumvents the media provider’s API (or the need for screen scraping if they don’t offer one). It works by turning a link to, say, a photo or video into XML or JSON that tells the user how to embed that media.
oEmbed: An Open Format for Embedding Media - ReadWriteWeb

posted : Saturday, May 10th, 2008

posted : Saturday, May 10th, 2008