Techotic

San Francisco based entrepreneur and blogger Loic Le Meur wrote an interesting post on his personal blog about social media and the decentralized way in which personal information was being spread.

Lois argued that although we have all these great social media tools that we use online daily, but it’s hard currently to locate them centrally in one place centrally, even though there are tools that are trying to pull all these services together, but it’s still difficult to assemble your digital life in one place.

Here Lois drew a social map of his decentralized self:

We used to have our social online presence very centralized, for me it was my blog. The current trend is very interesting, everything is decentralized and we only use the best services by type of media (text, photos, video, music, events etc). Everything we post is totally decentralized this is why tools like Mybloglog, Friendfeed and Socialthing start to gather all of these for us and it is a great idea.

The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service. Yes you can cross post or add badges, but it’s not really like a center feed in your blog. What I like about my blog is that it is my space, I own it, I can customize it and change it, I do not depend on anybody.

[via loic le meur]