Threaded Conversations And Their Importance

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WITH the Internet having many places to divulge information about one another, comment on certain issues and poll public opinion, it is becoming increasingly hard to make sure that the so called “two way conversations” are easily available to be read and followed by content readers.
A lot of discussion has been had about the importance of threaded conversations, especially within Leo Laporte’s TWIT.TV network, with a mini micro-blogging service being created just for users and contributors of the TWIT.TV community.
As pointed out by Adam in a previous post about Twitter, conversations can be hard to follow within such a service, with double checking sometimes needing to be done in regards to what someone is replying to you in regards to.
Duncan Riley of the Inquisitr uses FriendFeed for example to collate who likes a certain article.
The comments from FriendFeed are then presented on the original article’s page for easy access by future readers who wish to also participate in the conversation, and read what others thought not just within the article’s dedicated comment area, but outside of that initial network.
I think this is what Web 3.0 will be all about, the importance of intergrating all the services that exist out there, and gathering all the info available, together, just as google is continuing to do.




