New kids on the block: embrace formats.

All these new Web 2.0 wouldbe’s are lacking one functionality: import/subscriptions. Remember data wants to be outside the service. I am not going to upload all my images / bookmarks / blogs / agenda / to-do’s / whatever into each new service. They should offer at least a way to import the stuff. But even better each service should be able to subscribe to a feed of my primary source. For bookmarks this might be delicious, for images it might be Flickr or even better I publish the stuff on my own site in the necessary format.

All these new kids on the block should embrace a format, be it RSS, Atom, Microformat, StructuredBlogging, etc. At the moment I do not perceive any progress here.

Categories/tags: MicroContent • general • web 2.0
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