Kevin Marks bezeichnet Standards als die Links des Social Web:
What enabled Google to solve the search problem was a common standard for expressing pages and the links between them, so that they could index the webpages and derive a metric for which ones were more important. They didn’t do this by replacing the web with a structured database that they curated, they worked with the standards in use to make sense of it.
To solve the social conundrum we need the equivalent – agreed standards in widespread use so that we can generalize across sites.
Die Analogie trifft fast zu. In meinen Augen muss man das aber noch etwas verfeinern:
Standards sind die Protokolle des Social Web. Also die Äquivalente zu HTML und co. Auf ihnen basiert die Vernetzung technisch. Die Vernetzungen selbst (‚Links‘) aber sind APIs.… Weiterlesen