Great post by Pedro Pinheiro about making a business around art. I particularly like this excerpt:
For free? Why?
Because the money to be earned is not on things that can be copied. That’s a lost battle. If you’re a musician, you can make more money on concerts and events. If you’re a photographer, more money [...]
Stowe Boyd writes about a possible approach to address different user profiles on different clients. After exposing a possible microformats based approach he talks about a microsyntax solution to the problem:
A microsyntax approach would be something visible in the stream, like including a prefix in front of an @mention or retweet to denote original or [...]
Great news:
the Cliqset FeedProxy tool will normalize feeds from more than 70 other services into new feeds in the ActivityStreams format. It may just be an initial inroad to interoperability between these networks, provided by a 3rd party and not yet extensively used – but it’s an important step none the less.
Read the original: The [...]