The Coming Post-Platform Era

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8 points·blasdel··5 comments

The problem with this (and I think the difficulty in understanding what the author is trying to get across) is 'who owns the data?', or 'who owns the initiating platform. Sure all platforms can communicate with the others, which is more akin to e-mail, but you still have a platform and a suppliers.

You wouldn't want a platformless environment where anything you post is spread anywhere and everywhere without your knowledge. You kinda have that with twitter now, but you can still delete your posts.

Isn't this kind of what xmpp or pubsubhubbub are about, decoupling the data created by a user from a service?

I think it would be interesting to see this combined with the personel web server concept seen in Opera Unite, to serve an xmpp feed from an individual user (and device) that is ingested by multiple services. This would give users control over their data (they have a local copy) while allowing it to exist in the cloud as well. The user would also be able to publish "deletes" to tell services indexing her stream to remove a previously published message.

Having control of ones data is extremely important however. A push for existing web services to have an open intermediary data is essential, users should be able to backup or migrate their data with ease.

what?

It's what keeps social media consultants employed. Mostly nonsensical jargon.

"Instead, the web will be a meta-platform of content flows, unencumbered by actual applications."... that's what she said.

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