You just invented Web 2.0! Not being a jerk but this concept was one of the major ideas behind Web 2.0 but fizzled out. Services would provide data endpoints t

You just invented Web 2.0! Not being a jerk but this concept was one of the major ideas behind Web 2.0 but fizzled out. Services would provide data endpoints that your user agent (browser or whatever) would tie together. Even your identity was just a bunch of meta tags in the headers of your web page pointing to things like FOAF or OPML files that linked to people you knew or sites you liked. Your User Generated Content would just be your blog posts that could be easily followed by someone with an RSS reader. Things like photos or videos would work the same way as someone would just follow your Flickr feed (which you could point to with a metatag on your homepage. The key takeaway was that everyone would host their own data, deciding what to publish or make public, and then smarter clients (other sites or apps) would collect this information and do whatever graph analysis you wanted. But normal people do t want to run their own servers and tying disparate services together is non-trivial. So we got UGC but it was/is hosted on social media sites. They made it easier to put together an online presence than self-hosting everything.