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09 Jun 2006
MicroContent Ownership.
In the discussion yesterday the ownership of MicroContent came up. Why should we give / store our data with Yahoo, Google, etc? I just saw that Marc Canter also includes MySpace in this list. But many sources can be added to this list.
One part is to be sure that your MicroContent is not locked in. You should be able to get it out or even delete it (datalibre). And not all providers allow you to do that. And you might think of other problems with these mammoth service providers.
So I think we should go to a distributed solution, to an edge solution. This might be using your own hosting provider, which is separate from our ISP. And it is up to Aggregator providers to take it all in and create some new with interesting value.