Next Frontier: Comments
As I wrote and read about Friendfeed and other services that pull together our output on different web services, I started thinking about how this, in some way, is a one-way street.
What got me thinking about this was how people started commenting on items I posted in Friendfeed instead of on the original blog or commented on a Twitter item instead of getting back to the original author.
Basically, I guess I am wondering about how we can not only pull the information together, but then also disseminate the actions we take on the aggregation site back to the original item.
As other aggregation services, like AssetBar, start adding comment functions, this might become more and more of a question.
I guess much of this really hinges upon the question of ‘identity’ on the net. Maybe with the adoption of OpenID, it might become trivial to pull all this info together and then disseminate it again. Maybe some OpenID providers could add this as their value add as well.
Of course I have no answers for this right now, but that never stopped me from asking. Any thought?