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Whoa. Déjà vu.

April 24, 2007 at 11:24 pm · Filed under history, socialnetworks, web2.0

From an article written about AOL circa 2001:

"There is an all out war going on between those who promote the Internet and powerful corporations who are attempting to stifle the growth of the Internet. AOL pretends to be the internet, and restricts user access to web sites that don't pay them."

Fast-forward. It's 2007. Eliot Van Buskirk from Wired writes an article entitled, "Note to Everyone: MySpace Is Not the Web. Get Ready to Move On" where he states:

...MySpace isn't the web -- it's a business...Why should the company serve up its audience to YouTube, Sony and everyone else who wants a piece of the action for free?

Sound familiar? technorati tags: myspace, aol, history, web2.0

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MySpace Grabs Comment Links

April 24, 2007 at 6:55 pm · Filed under Uncategorized, aggregator, clearspring, socialnetworks, widget

MySpace has silently changed the way they deal with comments. Any link included in a user comment is now replaced with a new 'mysplink.' For example, I posted a link to Widgify to my friend's MySpace page. I set the link target to:

http://www.widgify.com

When the link was published to his MySpace comment section, the link target was replaced with:

http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LndpZGdpZnkuY29t

This means that MySpace can now not only track link-out activity, but can also block outbound links. This only seems to be the case with new comments. Old comments still point to their original link targets. MySpace has already turned off links for Flash widgets, so there is definitely a pattern emerging. This activity is extremely interesting in light of the upcoming changes coming soon from MySpace competitor, Facebook. Facebook seems to be moving in the opposite direction - opening up to developers. I wonder if MySpace take a hint from web history, or continue to move along their current trajectory. I guess time will tell if Tom still wants to be everyone's friend. p.s. Thanks to Matt K. from Clearspring for the find. This was also covered in Web Design 10. technorati tags: myspace, comments, links, yahoo, aol, widget

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Death of the Portal.

March 31, 2007 at 6:16 pm · Filed under Uncategorized, aggregator, clearspring, socialnetworks, web3.0, widget, widgetmanagement

I gave a talk on this topic at AjaxWorld. Since I love to share, I decided to post about it. As I started to write a post, however, it started to get a wee bit long. So, like any hacker, I chopped it up. In this first post, I will discuss the death of the web portal. In the next installment, I will cover the emerging replacement for the traditional portal - the Social Aggregator. The resulting parts are still not exactly short, so chew slowly. ;) p.s. I blogged some of this on this post about the changing media landscape. The story of the Web Portal The value proposition of the web portal was simple - we aggregate content for you to consume. In return for this service, you will give us your attention which we will monetize via advertisements. This value proposition made some people a lot of money. Most notably a little company called Yahoo. The foundational assumption of the portal model is that the user is a passive consumer of content. This assumption was adopted from the print mediums that were the forebears to the original portals. This is no surprise, especially given that the business models surrounding the web (page view) were adaptations of print business models. This concept used to work well because: 1. Content and service creation was difficult. 2. Aggregating content and services was difficult. 3. Computing, storage and bandwidth was expensive. 4. Majority of users were not familiar with GUI affordances. Things have changed At the inception of the web, data was almost entirely unstructured (HTML) and web-based applications were static because of the synchronous nature of the get/post mechanism. That is no longer the case. Web services, microformats, and structured data formats are swiftly proliferating. The increased availability of structured data, coupled with the availability of XMLoverHTTP has given birth to a new programming technique - AJAX. With AJAX, the rich interaction once only possible in desktop programming environments, is now available in the web programming environment. So where does that leave the base assumptions that made the whole portal model work? 1. Content and service creation was difficult.

Any fool with a web-browser can blog, or edit photos. Everyday new tools come out as costs of content production continue to plummet.

2. Aggregating content and services was difficult.

No more. As data is exposed as web services, it is pretty easy to grab. Just ask Programmable Web.

3. Computing, storage and bandwidth was expensive.

No more grass-hoppa. If you don't believe me, maybe you believe your hero Tim.

4. Majority of users were not familiar with GUI affordances.

Facebook generation rulez. Teens do not remember life before web.

The stage is set for a new paradigm Things are ripe for change. The amount of content is exploding. User attention is staying the same. But, we have some new tricks available. So what's next? To find out, tune in for our next episode, "Birth of the Social Aggregator." This is Hooman Radfar, signing off. technorati tags: portal, widgify, web 1.0, web 2.0

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Wetpaint Introduces Widget-Friendly Wikis

February 6, 2007 at 10:38 pm · Filed under aggregator, socialnetworks, startpage, widget

Just as start pages are enabling users to export widgets outside of their environments, other content aggregation platforms are now enabling users to import widgets into their environments. Wetpaint is officially the first of the Wiki platforms to announce widget-friendly functionality. Via Pete at Mashable:

"On Tuesday (today, for many of you), the wiki service Wetpaint is announcing a series of new features...the most interesting new feature to me is Wetpaint Widgets. This feature means you can now add YouTube and Google Video players, Vizu polls, Google Calendars, Photobucket slideshows, Meebo IM widgets, Gabbly chat and RSS feeds to your wiki. Additionally, you can add any widget that uses the “embed” or “iframe” tags. After testing this, we’re left wondering why every wiki doesn’t support widgets..."

I am confident that all collaboration platforms will quickly follow suit, joining the widget-friendly bandwagon. For more on this story, check out what my boy Vivek has to say over at StartupSquad. technorati tags: wetpaint, widgets, widgify, wiki, aggregators

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