Flickrosoft
Yahoo! Battles! The! Horde! (Headline style stolen shamelessly from The Register.)
This.
I wrung my hands a little when Microsoft bought into Facebook, but shrugged, because I really don't have much invested in facebook. (I'm not talking about monetary investment. Microsoft interest in something in which I held some shares would not be a bad thing. In a money-way.)
Flickr, on the other hand, seduced me in to releasing my control over my photos, with promises web2.0, hangin' with the cool kids, relief from maintaining my own photoalbum software (which was half-assed, but better than the available offerings—it turns out, good album software is hard), and decreased bandwidth requirements.
Once again, I'm thinking about web3.0. I'm sure this has been defined elsewhere, in some other way, but let me give you my definition: web3.0 happens when we stop pretending web2.0 belongs to us, when it really belongs to huge advertising platforms. Web3.0 is when we distribute the social network, and control our identities locally.
Now I have to go work on some half-assed photoalbum software. Again.
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