A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging
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In my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue:
…as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to join yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP). Does the Web truly need additional stream providers each with their own data silos? Is there a user-centric solution to this rapidly growing, overflowing-stream issue that puts YASP to rest once and for all?
This article answers these two questions in great detail but the succinct preview version is ...