{"id":874,"date":"2004-09-30T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=874"},"modified":"2004-09-30T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T01:46:07","slug":"social-software-butterfly-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/874","title":{"rendered":"Social (software) butterfly, part II."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Furthermore,<\/i> someone with deep pockets (*cough*Google*cough*) should go out there and frickin&#8217; <i>buy up<\/i> Flickr, Friendster, Plazes and all these similar services and roll them all into one mammoth &#8216;myLife&#8217; plugin for your weblog.  It&#8217;d be the greatest combination &#8220;about me + blogroll&#8221; system <i>ever.<\/i>  People are <i>using<\/i> these systems with increasing regularity, but it&#8217;s getting too bloody complicated.  Maybe this is the next arena for someone like Apple to tackle: a combination of these social software apps with some blogging software, something that brings all this mess together into one spot.  I think <i>this<\/i> is where the next big chunk of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Kottke&#8217;s<\/a> Web 2.0 concept will be coming from.<br \/>\nHmm.  There&#8217;s already stuff like this going on; the Rendezvous system built into iChat kind of does what Plazes is supposed to do anyway: show you who&#8217;s around, but iChat doesn&#8217;t let you link to a profile, or a weblog, to let you figure out <i>who<\/i> this random digital identity belongs to, or if they&#8217;re someone you&#8217;d ever consider exchanging syllables with&#8230;<br \/>\nRight.  Too much thinking, not enough sleeping.  Night-night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furthermore, someone with deep pockets (*cough*Google*cough*) should go out there and frickin&#8217; buy up Flickr, Friendster, Plazes and all these similar services and roll them all into one mammoth &#8216;myLife&#8217; plugin for your weblog. It&#8217;d be the greatest combination &#8220;about me + blogroll&#8221; system ever. People are using these systems with increasing regularity, but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-e6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}