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Re: Webmail is implementation, not Internet architecture (was Re: Change the mailing list protocol, not DMARC.)

Mark Rousell <markr@signal100.com> Wed, 18 June 2014 20:25 UTC

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On 14/06/2014 16:26, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> But even taking this as a given, it seems that every time that I go to a
> blog with a comments form on using my iPhone the provider is trying to
> push a 'stream reader' app at me. It might be that these people will
> only push a proprietary app but I think it likely that they would be
> interested in an open standard if one was on offer.

I suspect that for the most part they'd only be interested in an open
standard if it could reliably push adverts as part of the content and
generate reliably trackable page views from the adverts.

It seems to me that the re-siloisation of data has been driven by
commercial interests predicated on the hope of profit from
reader/customer lock-in and advertising revenue.

Open standards seem to me to tend in general to be incompatible with
advertising-based commercialisation in this context.



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