I have been thinking quite a bit lately about the use of syndicated content in a business environment. All the talk recently about broad lack of knowledge regarding RSS in the consumer sphere can probably be applied to business as well, but with good reason. Frankly, I don’t think people should really know what RSS is let alone what it stands for. Maybe it’s all about what your “definition of is” is, but content syndication and RSS should be spelled out in a less daunting way.
RSS can leverage the same metastructures that fits into the Storage 2.0 world. Its all based upon the value of data but with transparent access to the end-user. End-users shouldn’t know that the content they’re viewing is syndicated. Tagged values represent the value of data to business users and consumers alike and these tags can be purposed and reused in many ways. Portals are probably the most obvious. My Yahoo!-like internal portals are being used to aggregate information for users, but they typically have very little discretion in what they view and how it’s displayed.
(By the way, I’m perfectly allowed to use words like metastructure in my blog as it’s only read by fellow nerds.)
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