Comments on: 3DSN: Continuing Discussion http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/20/3dsn-continuing-discussion/ the philosophy of technology Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Paul Nicholson http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/20/3dsn-continuing-discussion/#comment-23650 Paul Nicholson Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:31:42 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/08/20/3dsn-continuing-discussion/#comment-23650 That reminds me: the question i was going to ask and didn't get to... Right now the information we give to all those social sites (movie ratings, friendships, etc) is valuable. Some of the businesses use that information to directly generate revenue. Even for the ones that don't, the recognize the value. - What incentive would those companies have for giving up that info? For opening it up to an API that could be used by other programs? That reminds me: the question i was going to ask and didn’t get to…

Right now the information we give to all those social sites (movie ratings, friendships, etc) is valuable. Some of the businesses use that information to directly generate revenue. Even for the ones that don’t, the recognize the value. - What incentive would those companies have for giving up that info? For opening it up to an API that could be used by other programs?

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