ergophobe - 5:09 pm on Apr 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

I understand the tribe and all that, but I think this app works backwards. What I would want for the good of my tribe is something that *takes* information from all sources and unifies it into a single feed that my tribe can subscribe to and they can subscribe via Facebook or RSS or Myspace or Twitter, whichever service *they* like. *That* would make sense to me. That would be a killer app and would fulfill the promise of the open social platform.

When it comes to the blogs, I don't need to subscribe to a service to read blogger blogs. I either visit them or subscribe to RSS. It's fundamentally different from FB, Myspace, Twitter et al.

How many people have friends who follow their Blogger blog and other friends who follow their *identical* Typepad blog and, of course, family members who follow their *identical* Blogspot blog. But none of them check the Facebook blog. That's for Facebook friends.

Honestly, I think the duplicate content issue is more of a problem, not less, once Google is out of the picture. If you really have a tribe, do you want to fraction them or unify them?