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On 22/03/12 22:44, Jeff Hammel wrote:
> I'm not sure how "most people" use the web, just me, but one thing that
> is vitally important to me would be to post a "status update" to
> multiple sites.  I would use social media more often if I could
> write-once/send-many such things.  

To expand further: how can we build this in a way which encourages
diversity in the social site space ("choice and innovation" :-), rather
than entrenching the leads of the current big players?

That could involve e.g.:

- Making it very easy to add new sites, or for sites to prompt to add
themselves
- Making it possible to post content to multiple sites at once
- Providing aggregate views of incoming data across sites

Gerv