Headers & Your Distributed Life
This is sort of a geeky post, so I’ll apologize in advance. I’m not necessarily a technical person. I’m neither a programmer nor web developer. I will then appeal to product managers and site owners.
Sites need to start thinking beyond themselves. Content from any site or service should be able to be explored and accessed from anywhere the creator of the content wishes. The more services that exist that allow people to generate some form of public content, the more important it will be for those services to embrace distributed technologies.
I am requesting that services such as MySpace, Upcoming, Flickr, Ma.gnolia, and others provide access to their user’s feeds in the header of their profile pages. It’s a simple thing to do. But if all profile pages included the main feed for their users, then it makes it easier for those users to spread out and distribute their lives. Oh and hey, while you’re at it, start embracing MicroID. Ma.gnolia does, but we need to go beyond just a handful of proponents. MicroID is a simple solution for profile verification. Again, the more our lives are distributed online, the more there will be a need for verification of those distribution points. MicroID is an elegant idea that costs nothing to implement. I argue that it’s more important and more useful than OpenID. But I’ll end this right here.
-beach
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