Comments on: Open APIs, Microformats, Centralized Data

By: Bronte Media » To Centralize or Not To Centralize

Bronte Media » To Centralize or Not To Centralize — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:52:25 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington, who writes the very good TechCrunch blog, has been thinking about whether content should be centralized or not. [...]

By: Singpolyma

Singpolyma — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:18:55 +0000

Some content makes more sense centralised, at least now when most services don’t play nice together, however I would agree that the vast majority of content is better decentralised if at all possible. In fact, eventually, it’s all better decentralised, but until the services play nice some things (like bookmark data ie del.icio.us) only works if you keep it all in the same place.

By: TechCrunch » Why I don’t like Riffs

TechCrunch » Why I don’t like Riffs — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:02:27 +0000

[...] Fred Wilson writes about the service and addresses points similar to those above that I made on CrunchNotes and Jeff Jarvis made on his blog. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:02:21 +0000

Fred, Instead of data coming out of Riffs and into the blog, it should be the other way around. People express themselves on their blog, and companies like Riffs should grab that content, aggregate it, and do something interesting with it.

Niki, any authoritative work on a subject, such as an encyclopedia, should be a collaborative work and a wiki is absolutlely perfect for that kind of project. But wiki’s are hammers, and not everything is a nail.

By: Niki Scevak

Niki Scevak — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:13:12 +0000

Then why don’t people post encyclopaedia entries on their blogs and why do they post on Wikipaedia instead?

I think you, and Jeff, are dead wrong on the centralized content hypothesis. There are just too many examples (continued momentum of Tripadvisor in travel even when travel is one of the most popular blog topics) that suggest otherwise.

I agree Google base was off the mark and should have been more about upgrading Blogger (http://brontemedia.com/2005/11/17/open-letter-to-google-base-product-manager/) but that does not mean centralized content is a bad thing.

By: fred wilson

fred wilson — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:30:35 +0000

what if riffs let you post to your blog, like flickr does wiht photos and blip and youtube do with video

then it becomes the easiest way to post a review.

they don’t do that yet, but how hard would it be to do that?

not very hard

By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Riff raff

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Riff raff — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:58:08 +0000

[...] Still, I agree with Mike Arrington: “Do we need Riffs when everyone seems very happy writing reviews directly on their blogs?” [...]