Observations on Relevant Commercial Media

March 30, 2008

Are We Forgetting about DiSO?

Filed under: , — Sean Ammirati @ 4:18 pm

There is a really interesting meme this weekend on TechMeme, kicked off by Loic Le Meur’s post “My Social Map is Totally Decentralized but I Want it Back on My Blog” where he says:

The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service. Yes you can cross post or add badges, but it’s not really like a center feed in your blog. What I like about my blog is that it is my space, I own it, I can customize it and change it, I do not depend on anybody (except the software and host, TypePad of course, needless to say).

First of all, I am finding FriendFeed to be a great service for discovering conversations. So it certainly has utility to me, but I still really want an online me. (BTW, apparenlty in the comments of a TechCrunch post Scoble’s getting an interview on Monday … I must point out we interviewed them a few months ago on ReadWriteTalk ahh well, I guess he is MSM now - jk buddy!)

However, back to Loic’s point I also really want a centralized place where all my online conversations live. For me, I’d probably host a seperate WordPress blog just for all these conversations at some new URL like my name (which I do own but haven’t setup) but I realize for many people their blog or social network account would be fine. I pesonally feel this pain every time I’m ask to provide ‘my website’ on the web. Such as here:

WhatURL.jpg

& in Twitter here

Twitter URL -- Same Question?

I could imagine entering all of these, but would love a page I have control over which would incldue all of them:

(For a nice graphical version, check out Brain Solis’ post - you need to scroll to see it)

Interestingly, I talked to Chris Messina about this at SxSW and this is very much part of the vision of DiSo - which seems to be missing from the conversation on TechMeme. If you aren’t familar with DiSO, check out this great video interview by Chris on it:


The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo.

I’m actuall on a long weekend vacation in South Beach Miami with my wife, but this hit a nerve so I figured I’m jump into the conversation quickly. However, it’s definitely time to head back to the beach and margaritas ;)

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