Comments on: I Wish "Tapestry" Existed

By: Suenetbook2011

Suenetbook2011 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:01:00 +0000

Hi, i think you want an offline blog with tons of widgets and links picked up from your social media and placed in the relevant pages; back to time management diaries but on line; we called it a brain in a book…maybe a p.a. to run it rather than a virtual assistant…

By: Mogul Needmoney

Mogul Needmoney — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:46:00 +0000

It’s a great idea, but I think you’re right. There’s just nothing much to be gained by the really big players in allowing some third-party developer to tie all their apps together. One of the ways in which capitalist-thinking can really fall over, I feel.

By: Timz

Timz — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:27:04 +0000

CmdrTaco wants something similar: http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/10/a-unified-theory-for-information-consumption/

IMHO the key is a really, really good user interface that both lets you easily see the information you want to see coming in; and gives you a very clear picture of what you're sharing with whom on the way out (even though Facebook makes that as UNclear as possible, especially via the API.)

By: Brittany Laughlin

Brittany Laughlin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:45:10 +0000

"A fun way to leave digital breadcrumbs of where I've been, a historical record of sorts that I imagine will end up being useful in some way." - I have a product in beta that I think you're going to find solves not only this, but nods to this notion of collecting signals from friends. @br_ttany if you want more info.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:01:22 +0000

John:

Ironically, Facebook may be ideally positioned to introduce a Tapestry-like option that would enable "power-users" to fully control their data/identities while keeping them linked to their non-geek "Friends."

It would be great to see Facebook introduce a Premium Wordpress framework/template that would allow us to port all our FB personal profiles onto a self-hosted server and on a custom-domain that we own.

The biggest strategic mistake About.me made is not to give us the option of using a custom-domain (masking as premium feature). Take a look at Google Apps and it quickly becomes apparent that had it not offered us the option to use of own domains, we would've been reluctant to move our corporate email there.

If Facebook is serious about becoming a platform, such a move to self-hosted profiles and pages would be a major leap forward and would dramatically change the tenor of the discussion concerning cookies, privacy, et al.

By: Amit Patel

Amit Patel — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:13:33 +0000

FriendFeed aggregates social streams from multiple sources (including “imaginary friends” for importing streams of people who aren't on FriendFeed), but after using it for a while I realized that I was missing context and culture.

A post on Facebook or Twitter in isolation isn't carrying the context of other posts. There's stream-specific context (someone is responding to someone else, not necessarily through a “reply”), but there's also cross-stream context (things like 'Photo Friday' or '#thingsididntknow'). Then there's the cultural aspects of each community, like hash tags on Twitter, mayor badges on Foursquare, rage guy on Reddit, Fake Grimlock on avc.com, etc.

In the end I found that the aggregation wasn't that useful for me. It was mixing together things that came from many different sources and different formats and trying to homogenize them, and it lost what made each site unique. For example, when I browse delicious or flickr, I use the tags. But FriendFeed's import of those feeds doesn't include tags. Would it be useful if they had a different UI for each input stream? Perhaps, but then it degrades into a bunch of sidebar-style widgets that don't fit together.

The best stuff on FriendFeed is the stuff that started on FriendFeed, not the stuff imported from elsewhere. The best stuff on Google Buzz is the stuff that started on Buzz, not the stuff imported from elsewhere. These two experiments have made me a little less optimistic that aggregation of social sites will work out.

By: shehab

shehab — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:34:45 +0000

didn't friendfeed come close?
gist and (to a lesser extent) rapportive are in the general space also.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:12:08 +0000

@Norbert - Think John and many others are wishing

a) That they don't need to set this page up and that the frames and content sets are dynamic. Something like what FB is becoming now.

b) Also, that one day they can move items from 1 column of your page to another without losing its semantic(meaning), that was the idea behind Facebook Social Plugin but then everyone needs to trust Facebook with all their information.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:06:36 +0000

@John – The question you raise is interesting yet challenging in many ways. Single Service: Surely 1 single service that brings it all togther is a dream come true. It can truly happen only if there is a way to bring all the feeds(social: so RSS won’t cut it..sad..and its an expanding set..no standards) together and somehow make semantic sense for you(the user) despite all the standard challenges(spellings/contexts) with Folksonomy. You can continue reading the rest of this comment on my blog if you wish. As it forced me to push out a post that I was holding on to for a while.

Question: What is the Unit of Information? You can read the full post here: http://watalon.com/?p=238“

By: Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

Norbert Mayer-Wittmann — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:05:14 +0000

Sort of like http://nmw.me ?

I haven't updated that recently (I don't use twitter very much, because it too random / noisy), but I think this depicts the basic idea, right?