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On no more Web 2.0…

June 19, 2007 at 17:03
tags: blog, life

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think I’m done with Web 2.0 mashups.

Ever since the sale of last.fm to CBS, I haven’t felt comfortable submitting my listening data. Most of you know I’ve felt the same way about Google and now I feel the same way now about delicious, flickr, facebook, etc. I’ve already moved my data off last.fm and soon I’ll remove it from the others.

The biggest loss for me is delicious, but I think I’ll be able to do something similar in this blog — maybe with a plugin or just how I tag it. As far as calendaring, photos, video and music sharing, I think between iCal, iPhoto and WebDAV, I can do most of what I want to do. Dreamhost even has BitTorrent and flash encoders to do file and video sharing.

Once I have more free time, I’ll explain my master plan in detail, but by the end of the month, I’ll be Web 2.0 free. Seriously. Why should CBS have my music listening habits? Why should Google know who I have appointments with? Why should Yahoo know what sites I’m recommending to my friends? Why should Facebook know what movies I want to see? It’d be one thing if they had clearly defined policies on what they do with the data, but they don’t.

You guys should join the revolution.

Colin said,

June 20, 2007 @ 15:38

I want to join the revolution. We’ll see if I can actually come to grips with giving up delicious, facebook, twitter (that should be easy), and last.fm. I don’t think giving up gmail is happening though.

Travis said,

June 21, 2007 @ 15:06

Are you giving up Wikipedia too?

Yaw said,

June 21, 2007 @ 15:08

I don’t really submit anything to Wikipedia (besides the whole Will Smith thing)…

Travis said,

June 21, 2007 @ 15:22

Thats a cop out answer :-p

Yaw said,

June 21, 2007 @ 15:34

Perhaps. But as a privacy and control buff, how do you deal with this issue of users essentially handing over their personalities to web 2.0 institutions?

Travis said,

June 21, 2007 @ 15:50

hehe ob I don’t like it at all. i’m also quite torn on the whole last.fm thing. i’ve never forwarded stuff through my gmail nor used calendar, because that seems too egregious. The problem is of course that they’re nice services. BTW, last.fm software is open sourced (http://www.last.fm/download/). I wonder if we could host a meta site that scrobbles and all that to our site, links to real last.fm for browsing purposes, but doesn’t submit to them.

Travis said,

June 21, 2007 @ 15:51

Considering del.icio.us’ api, a similar thing could probably be done there.

LN said,

June 23, 2007 @ 1:39

You guys are all slightly crazy, methinks. Crazy but awesome.

That being said, I have similar concerns. Just not about last.fm. And not even really about del.icio.us.

bpo said,

July 8, 2007 @ 13:28

In an ideal world you could have these sites be peer to peer networks so that no single organization owns the information. It could still be browser-based, but any Jack or Jane could set up her own node. With the opening of standards across the web, it’s fairly possible, and quite possible to do in a secure fashion so each person controls their own data.

BTW, it’s pretty uncool of you to require an email address to post a comment on a post about privacy concerns. :P

bpo said,

July 8, 2007 @ 13:32

p.s. Is this just residual bitterness about SongVine not taking off?

Yaw said,

July 8, 2007 @ 14:01

SongVine is still possible damn you. I just have more things on my plate.

I think RSSing of all web services is going in the right direction. iPhoto has photocasting which is essentially a web service that runs when you launch the app. You can imagine a Firefox plugin that served as the node and advertised a number of services. It’s certainly an idea to start thinking about…

Point taken on the email addresses. I guess I can remove that restriction until the bots find this blog.

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