The Problem with Twitter

In Beyond Social Media, Doc Searls offre alla nostra attenzione questa tabellina:

Servizio

Open Protocol

email

SMTP POP3 IMAP MIME

blog

HTTP XML RSS Atom

podcast

RSS

instant messaging

IRC XMPP SIP/SIMPLE

twitter

facebook

friendfeed

Dice Doc:

“Personal and social go hand-in-hand, but the latter builds on the former.

Today in the digital world we still have very few personal tools that work only for us, are under personal control, are NEA, and are not provided as a grace of some company or other. (If you can only get it from somebody site, it ain’t personal.) That’s why I bring up email, blogging, podcasting and instant messaging. Yes, there are plenty of impersonal services involved in all of them, but those services don’t own the category. We can swap them out. They are, as the economists say, substitutable.”

Come al solito, la discussione prosegue anche su friendfeed.