It’s about time someone asked that question
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Scott Karp does a great job of exposing the lock-in strategies inherent in social networking sites when he asks “Where are my files?” He correctly ties this strategy to the free, advertising supported business models being used by these sites. User lock-in is key to keeping the page views turning. Our solution is to offer feed backup on Grazr.com. FriendFeed streams, Twitter posts and Facebook updates can be saved on our servers and retrieved later as a feed for any range of dates or keywords. People need the ability to control their social messages in a form that can be reused and shared with others later. It isn’t the file format that matters, as Scott claims, but the knowledge that data is in a form that you can control.