On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Ayende Rahien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aggregation is only useful if you have a lot of > individuals participating. If you don't, you can > just form direct links to the publishers, without > the need for aggregation.
Of course. But, your comment makes me think I misunderstood your earlier question. Let me clarify: I think there will be a small number of major aggregation services relative to the number of publishing services. The future should not be like today. Today, we've only got a small number of services publishing data. But, in the future, if we can get good protocols defined, we should have a great number of them. The key reason we have only a small number of social network services today is that we don't have support in the system for federating data between services. The result is that the earliest services benefit from "network effects" and lock out any new services. If we get the federation protocols right, then it will be possible for dozens, if not hundreds, of different services to be started and have a chance to prove themselves. bob wyman
