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Links: 1-3-2008

• Enterprise RSS: 2008 : The Year of RSS
  Quote: “A large segment of users are taking advantage of start pages like iGoogle and Netvibes to be their own aggregator, and are using RSS to accomplish this, there is no reason why this should not also happen behind the firewall.”
  (categories: aggregators enterprise rss feeds syndication behindthefirewall )

• 2007: The Year in RSS - ReadWriteWeb
  Quote: RSS “… made blogs readable, podcasts subscribable, wikis trackable and search persistent.”
  (categories: 2007 rss feeds syndication trends feed )

• YouTube - Scotch Mist - A Film With Radiohead In It
  52 minutes of Radiohead: every song from their new album. Brilliant
  (categories: radiohead youtube video inrainbows from:billjive )

• ongoing · 2008 Prediction I: RIA vs. AJAX
  Quote: “… the people who want to add UI ‘richness’ to the Web are always developers, never users.”
  (categories: ria ajax flash gui usability )

• Xeni Jardin: Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands
  Quote: “If someone’s misbehaving, she can remove all the vowels from their screed with one click. The dialogue stays, but the misanthrope looks ridiculous, and the emotional sting is neutralized.”
  (categories: disemvoweller community moderation comments )

• If all your friends jumped off of a bridge? at Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar
  Quote: Facebook is like: “Whispering endlessly into a room crowded with everyone I?ve ever met while simultaneously being badgered by evil robotic clone versions of those same people that insistently try to trick me into buy things from Overstock.com…
  (categories: facebook signaltonoise social socialnetworks noise )

The Radiohead video was very cool.

Also, couldn’t agree more with the Ben Brown article about Facebook. I find that it, and pretty much all social sites, is a sort of hollowed out version of real social interaction. Even with people I know well, getting info via the ‘feed’ only goes so far. It’s instantly forgettable and meaningless.

I guess I’d rather have a more direct, personal interaction. Maybe I’m “old school” that way.

Yeah, I tried the Facebook thing for awhile and I tried Twitter for awhile, neither really does it for me, but maybe that’s because I don’t have 300 close friends that all have iPhones and endless amounts of time to send txt messages. I’m looking at you Dawn.

At least Facebook lets me find people from highschool without having to pay anything. I wonder how scared classmates.com is right now?