Has anyone noticed the one small issue with the Internet (o.k., there's more and maybe it's not small :). I had an email discussion with a friend yesterday about the fact of duplicity.
you'll all have seen it. You do a search on Google (does anyone use anyone else anymore?!) and it comes back with 50,000 results for your query. you start trawling through some of the links to find that lots of them are basically 'copy and pastes' of other sites. Bad form, eh?
the main reason the discussion came about was due to posting up calendar events on TGU. I was lamenting the fact that I couldn't see why we were going to have to create our own Google Calendar entries for tv shows when I couldn't understand why the tv networks weren't offering it themselves. They're the sort of thing that would just be useful. These are the sort of things that fall across multiple areas though.
Why so many different CD lookup databases - would it not be easier to just have one single global one? Instead of having to looking across multiple databases to find album info, it would all be in one location.
I suppose Wikipedia has the potential to work like this - a central repository for all info regarding, well, everything (and taking the example, I see people have started adding all data related to music artists, including track listings - now all they have to do is integrate it into all the music players ;)
What do people think on this?
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But - should it be all owned by one place? Surely choice & competition is best for us all?
The trick is for all content providers to be open and allow anyone to read & aggregate their data in a filtered form for their readers.
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