Comments on: Distributed RSS Reader network

by: Ankit Dangi

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:29:18 +0100

Certainly, true. I see, microformats playing a key role towards organizing content, and adapting it to semantic worth.

by: NatC

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:22:35 +0000

I might be slightly off-topic but it looks to me as if I’m having a basic experience of this sort everyday as I’m going through my delicious network’s bookmark feed (within netvibes).

I get to pick interesting bookmarks from others, sometimes even copy those bookmarks over to my account. And still browse through other people’s networks to find other people of interest.
So that’s not what you would call an automated feature, but it works great for me everyday in providing me with loads of new contents with a high level of relevance. Also have been using the for: feature on multiple occasions (and so do friends of mine).

Last thing, del.icio.us can help pick very specific contents that an automated feature would probably not get.

by: Harrison

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:41:21 +0000

You are right. I think turning the blogosphere into a social network is next to impossible right now because blogs are disjoint. In social networks, emails identify people nodes, and nodes are connected by friendships. In blogs, URLs identify nodes, but URLs are not connected in anyway.

I think open projects like OpenID and more specifically FOAF will connect the blogsphere together. Even more so, the age-old concept of blogrolls can do that if we can standardize the format somehow. Until then, blogs will stay as disjoint as they are today.

by: Udi

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:04:38 +0000

All very fair Just one small note. We now automatically create folders for you when you import your GReader OPML. This functionality wasn’t around when you joined FEO very early on. Thanks.