The Web is Dissolving

Great post by Julian on Superfeeder, discovered by Tyler Strause on Buzz.  He believes the Web as we know it is "dissolving" in several different dimension: geographical space, time, from our computers, and- the one I found interesting, from our websites:


"This I think is the most intriguing fact. There used to be a time where I would be on NYT.com, on Craigslist, or even on my wells fargo account. This is dissolving too : the data I consume is more and more decoupled from the publishing site. I very rarely go to NYT.com’s home page, however, I keep consuming it from links I see passing by, from news reader… etc. My bank account? I access it from Mint.

The next step is to actually have a true data freedom, where not only my data is exportable, but also where it is in sync : I update my status on service Y, and service X knows about it. I add a friend on Facebook and Flickr knows about it too. My web profile will become this “bus” of data about me that people can access from several endpoints (like Twitter, or LinkedIn, or this blog), and not a huge archipelago of small bits that I need to update one by one".

The full post is worth a read: http://blog.superfeedr.com/the-web-is-disolving/