Posted by Stephen Downes February 14, 2004
Two types of technologies are about to merge. The technologies are content syndication, used by blogging websites around the world, and social networking, employed by sites such as Friendster and Orkut. They will merge to create a new type of internet, a network within a network, and in so doing reshape the internet as we know it.
L. Dirckinck-Holmfeld, и T. Ryberg. Power Users of Information and Communication Technology International, San Jose, Costa Rica, EDC, EDC, (8-10 August 2005)August 8-10, 2005
http://powerusers.edc.org/symposium/.