[ricardobeat]

I think people are missing the point. Yes, Flickr is still here and you could use it. But Flickr never really got to mobile (a major strategy failure). Do you know since when Flickr has similar functionality to Instagram? Today - they just released a new version with filters.

The point is, you can't build much on top of instagram, twitter, facebook, whatever. APIs are encumbered by pricy licenses, nobody wants to collaborate. Open standards for sharing data are dying. RSS is dead. Mash-ups are dead. Everything is behind private APIs and walled gardens, the web doesn't connect everything anymore.

[acheron]

My Google Reader account is surprised to learn that RSS is dead.

How else do you keep up with updates on a bunch of different sites? (Serious question.)

[ricardobeat]

Many sites around the web don't publish RSS anymore, and browsers have removed the default RSS readers.

[gurkendoktor]

That's "easy" in 2012: You Like them on Facebook (and wait for them to pay $$$ to promote their postings to get into your newsfeed).

[jaredsohn]

As a user, if you want to get every posting from a Facebook page, you can select to be notified on all updates.

With a little work (not easy for people who don't care a lot about it) you can create an RSS feed for any Facebook page:

http://sem-group.net/search-engine-optimization-blog/subscri...

and then read that content in your RSS reader.

[icebraining]

But when did it ever?