On social networks we've got nothing

Anil Dash, an entrepreneur, writer and geek, has become the co-founder of Activate's strategic consulting firm and the CEO of Thinkup, a social analytics tool. Stackexchange is also a member of the Board of Directors. Here's what he thinks.

If someone else will link to your site, then he will bring you traffic. People on Flickr set up licensing agreements such as CC for their photos, allowing artists, businesses, and individuals to make it easier to reuse material. Technnorati can search most social networks in real time, with tags, to find which sites link their content, and to discuss topics without having to think too much about which platform they are on.

Content authoring and sharing services at the beginning of this century, users expect to be able to download all the data, or export the data to other competing services, without any conditions. In the past, service providers had made data more interoperable just to make it easier for users to convert data, although doing so would lower the threshold for competitors. In the early days of social networking, some people used their own websites as a sign of personal identification, rather than as a vassal to the services of large companies.

Five years ago, if you intend to use the content of other websites on your own applications and websites, you do not need to sign any contracts or agreements, just a simple and detailed document format. And the user experience will not be bad because of the "political war" between different companies.

The Dash feels that today's internet world, the Internet has lost the outstanding quality. Today's social networks have brought millions of users, but only a small number of people have become rich. Today's situation is partly due to Google, in the presence of AdWords and AdSense, Link is to express views and means, but then become a means of influencing profitability.

Yes, Internet services are becoming more closed today. Abroad, Twitter used to be a playground for third-party developers, but since the August API New Deal, the ubiquitous "restrictions" have been frustrating, not only to limit the frequency of API requests, but also to limit the number of Third-party clients to maximize user numbers and so on, and recently with Instagram, the latter is no longer in Twitter To publish a picture.

Interestingly, Twitter planned to work with Facebook in 2010, but was rejected when Evan Williams accused Facebook of "closing". In the past two years, the "closed" accusations also fell on Twitter.

Although Google has been advocating the "open, free" internet, but the introduction of Google + has made its open services closed, Google Reader has canceled the original "Friends Focus", "friend sharing" function, so that Google reader to become a vassal of the company.

BuzzFeed Rob Fishman, who once wrote about Google Reader's development as a social network, used to harvest like-minded friends through Google Reader. They talked online, and they gathered off the line. As I have done in the past.

I entered "Google Reader found friends" Three keywords in google, found that this tutorial on how to find friends in Google reader of the article, can not help but feel, now Google reader--it gradually reduced to become pure, Unable to share the moving reading tool.

Many books like to use "business war" to describe commercial competition. "Life-and-Death" becomes the normal of commercial competition. This kind of ideology determines the business company's decision, will consider its own survival and development more. The so-called closed, is to protect their own interests of the dispute. To cater to the interests of most people, the decisions made by commercial companies appear to be in line with business logic and correctness. However, I would like to see a world of varied and diverse values.