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Facebook got a foothold, because authoring tools sucked so bad. That's ignoring the magic of some of their social tooling. But sharing digital content with yo
by keypress 10y ago
Facebook got a foothold, because authoring tools sucked so bad. That's ignoring the magic of some of their social tooling. But sharing digital content with your own intended audience could be achieved in a distributed manner. I know the W3C are trying to tackle that problem. We still need intuitive and easy publishing and aggregation tools that beat the Facebooks.
- username223 10y ago> But sharing digital content with your own intended audience could be achieved in a distributed manner. We almost have the tools now: * cheap or free blog hosting with easy markup and non-public posts * self-hosted commenting with a URL field for commenters, enabling discoverability * friendly RSS readers (I use NetNewsWire) * password management built into most systems and/or browsers, to keep track of individual logins There's work to be done to make it more user-friendly, but all the tools are there.
- keypress 10y agoIt's the user friendly bit that matters.