<p dir="ltr">sorry, but I just had a hearty lol at "Widnes is the future"</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 Jul 2012 16:38, "Daniel Hartley" <<a href="mailto:D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk">D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Seems like Widnes then must be the future. <br>
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For what its worth, I'm already on Libertree. The problem as I see
it is that its not very compatible with stuff, so rather than
socially connected you have a sense of being othered and placing
yourself amongst likeminded souls but who aren't connected to those
more 'ordinary'..<br>
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<div>On 25/07/12 16:16, Simon Johnson wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> In that
case I don't understand your previous email. What was the<br>
"problem" that "geeks" solved for you in the late 90s?<br>
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<div>I'm sorry, reading my e-mail back it is ambiguous:</div>
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<div>> For me, geeks already solved this problem in the late
90s. </div>
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<div>What I'm saying is that the solution to this problem is
already a solved problem. You can do this today with open
technologies with previously created protocols. </div>
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<div>My friends and I actually ran this set-up during the early
00s. We all had our own blogs with RSS and that's how we did
things in Widnes. My site still exists (it's just never hit!
:) )</div>
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<div>Then Facebook delivered an application that had a much
better fit and finish and everyone went there. Me included,
eventually.</div>
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<div>Even though the 00s stuff wasn't as good a user it
experience, it did fundamentally work and is more free than
tying yourself to a particular provider. Even the free
solutions like Diaspora.</div>
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