Last modified: Friday, October 31, 2008 at 9:25 PM.
dude, where's my data? 
Just added another track to my mp3.com profile, and sure enough, they still haven't fixed the problem where my collection is only viewable when I'm logged in. Can it be seen by other mp3.com users? Who knows! I was told it was being looked into 2 months ago -- no word since.
I certainly put enough time into it, so I'm going to keep poking at them until it gets corrected, but it's this kind of thing that really makes me question the client-server future. I like the social web, but if there's a problem with my data, I'd be fine with it being my fault. When it's someone else's...well, we all know how that can be. There may be something to Dave's model of the OPML Editor keeping posts local and then upstreaming to the server silently, because if blogs.opml.org ever died, it would be frustrating, but I'd still have all those entries on my hard drive ready to upload somewhere else.
This only solidifies my conviction that Web 3.0 will be about the glue that holds these services together--web to web, local to web, and any others in-between that may arise. Until then mp3.com will be the sole keepers of my album collection data unless I want to re-enter them manually somewhere else.
Which brings up the question: why aren't there more music community sites that let you upload, or synchronize through, your iTunes XML file?
