I'm glad you don't care where or how the aggregation happens, but who is going to pay the bills? As technology (both hardware and software) progresses, these bills might become so low that it won't really matter much any more.
Perhaps at that point we'll have the whole of social computing running on an open, distributed, p2p-like system so that we all share the "bills" without even thinking about it. Or are we going to continue with this walled-garden approach to user-generated content? "Open APIs" like the Facebook API aren't open enough, IMO, as Facebook is the gatekeeper and still has the final say about what can be done with the user's data.
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Perhaps at that point we'll have the whole of social computing running on an open, distributed, p2p-like system so that we all share the "bills" without even thinking about it. Or are we going to continue with this walled-garden approach to user-generated content? "Open APIs" like the Facebook API aren't open enough, IMO, as Facebook is the gatekeeper and still has the final say about what can be done with the user's data.
We can, and eventually will, do better.