[_] MS offer $44.6 billion for Yahoo
Dan Brickley
danbri at danbri.org
Fri Feb 1 14:16:33 GMT 2008
Tim Beadle wrote: > On 01/02/2008, Dan Brickley <danbri at danbri.org> wrote: >> This ought to become less and less an issue. With FOAF/XFN and APIs, ... >> you can hopefully rebuild your online life elsewhere. > > FOAF won't force your mates to migrate though, so even if you take all > your data and contacts with you, unless your contacts also make the > jump, you're SOL. Yeah, I think what we'll see is a slow melting away of the walls between sites. It isn't an all or nothing affair: many sites let me see RSS feeds from people, even if I don't use those sites. And there are more and more sites trying to be the "glue" that connects these various accounts, or that offer event streams. Six Apart are doing fun stuff, eg http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2008/01/time_for_action.html#more Well I'll find out more tommorrow. Er, today. Crap, I'm going back to bed! waking up at 3am-- cheers Dan