Control of Your Space
When you create your presence on the web, how much control are you willing to give up?
When you host your stuff on a Web site that’s free and that you don’t control some nasty crap can happen. Yesterday MySpace started blocking Photobucket stuff. My blog is hosted on Wordpress.com and I have the same issues the MySpace folks are seeing (the free service where my blog is hosted right now, which is different from the software that you host on your own servers). The thing is when a company is hosting your stuff for free they need to see some way to make money off of the service. This isn’t going to be free with no ads forever and ever. And, it certainly would piss me off if I worked on Wordpress.com if someone came along and made money from my user’s photos and videos. – Robert Scoble
Of course, I have always considered Robert something of a special case before he always has made use of hosted services. He has never really had full control of his web presence. Personally, I like having full control over my domains.
That being said, I have enjoyed playing with Twitter of late. And after having sort of stumbled on the concept of a lifestream, I have created them at Ziki, iStalkr (through Steven), Tumblr (through Alex), and the phenomenon of last weekend, Jaiku. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
