Comments on: Google Buzz + Reader + Twitter + Facebook = Noise

By: marfi

marfi — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:23:54 +0000

I feel the same way, but since I work on favit I manage to control things and what I see/do not see better, check our approach and see if it will help you, I will be glad to hear what you have to say: http://blog.favit.com/en/favit-information-over...

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By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:32:13 +0000

Thank you, Meryn. I am not opposed to the principle of aggregation either – what you describe can also be termed 'lifestreaming', which is a category of posts on my blog.

What I am opposed to is 'super-aggregation' – duplicating content across networks and then aggregating them – which creates the noise.

What you describe as 'subscriber-side' aggregation sounds like a very interesting idea. I wonder if the Activity Streams standard will help realize that concept.

By: Meryn Stol

Meryn Stol — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:46:25 +0000

Just wanted to say that I love your approach to social media.
I'm not fundamentally opposed to the idea of “aggregation” of different streams, because I think there's value in being able “the whole” of someone's activity. Seeing someone's tweets, flickr images, blog posts, etc all in one timeline can provide a richer picture than having to explicitly visit different websites or open different clients for that.
But I think aggregation at the “publisher level” (i.e. users choosing what to feed in) only makes sense if the aggregator offers filtering options to subscribers as well. The only service that does this well is FriendFeed. I think offering aggregation without offering filtering options is a mistake.
That said, I can imagine the concept of “publisher-side” aggregation dying out, making place for “subscriber-side” aggregation. I'd love to see a multi-service social media client which would let me select a person, than select (opt-in) any streams/feeds of him/her I want to follow.

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By: jangeronimo

jangeronimo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:54:53 +0000

Not everybody uses filters like lists in Facebook and even in Twitter. My activity in FriendFeed flows down to Facebook as updates/shares. I'm worried it's might swamp the stream of my FB friends. I'm seriously considering posting updates which are only native to Facebook.

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:01:06 +0000

Khürt,

I perfectly understand. I am not pointing fingers at people, but the social media mess we've all landed in. And yes, for some of the reasons you mention, like not everyone is on the same network, we have this problem. There doesn't seem to be an easy way out.

By: Khürt

Khürt — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:48:50 +0000

Mahendra, as I mentioned I lost my entire collection of bookmarks when ma.gnolia.com suffered unrecoverable failure. I can certainly understand why some people might want to use another service "just-in-case". How many people know about backupify. (terrible name)? This is the first I have heard about it.

The reason I have accounts on many social network is that not everyone I know is on the network I choose. I know people who use Orkut and not Facebook. So I have accounts there. I know people who prefer twitter over friendfeed or identi.ca. Some content WILL be duplicated.

The duplication of content is similar to what occured on IM networks. We all have friends who use AOL or Yahoo only while we prefer Google Talk or MSN. That's why things like Pidgin and Trillian etc exits.

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:28:58 +0000

Khurt, using social networks as a backup is another example of how they're being misused and their followers being abused. There are aggregators like Friendfeed and specialized services like Backupify that do the job.