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Solid critique over at New Curator from a week or two ago about the Creative Spaces Beta release by a consortium of UK Museums . The project sounds well and good “throwing open the collections,” and so forth, but in reality, it seems to amount to no more than a camouflaged google search.

Which leads us to a bigger pet peeve about organizational web initiatives — YOU DO NOT NEED TO RECREATE GOOGLE/FACEBOOK/YOUTUBE/DELICIOUS/TWITTER ON YOUR SITE — the nature of the web is to distribute services that span networks, not for each site to re-invent these services according to its own skins. Look, the internet is our best friend, and we appreciate the power of new technologies and open source movements ( steve.museum and flickr commons come to mind), but there’s just no need to reinvent the wheel.

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