Kinda seems that way sometimes, dunnit?
Just came across Particls, a new service (with a really confusing start page) that basically works like pointcast did and delivers data to your desktop. The founders want to take an RSS feeds of your FB news stream and package it with other data you provide (like links and feeds you read/write) so that your so-called friends (or the voyeurs who hang on your every move) can see your status data, even if you're not joined to them on FB, as part of a stream they ship out.
So, on one hand, this sounds cool. RSS next gen and all that, right?
But on the other hand, it sounds waay too stalkery and perhaps like the Aussie founders inhaled way too much Steve Gillmor and Seth Goldstein before they earnestly started pitching their product as a way not only to track attention--but to get it.
Dunno. Gonna check it out more.
But I am sure, that me at least, part of the appeal of the FB stream is the closed network quality...that's probably one of the things I don't want to export out.
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