federated social web

The Progressive (Profitable) Web

Ryan Holiday laments the loss of Google Reader and RSS in general in Our Regressive Web, arguing that if someone came up with them today, we'd think they were brilliant ideas: We’re just regressing. [...] RSS is impervious to blogging’s worst, but most profitable traits. [...] No wonder

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Making billions of dollars from the federated social web

Diaspora was pretty exciting. A Kickstarter campaign that promised it all: a platform created "for everyone to have full control over their data and to empower people in to become responsible, secure, and social Internet dwellers". They raised over $200,000, which at the time was the largest