Going forward

Two sections to this, one is more functional and the second is more my take
on some of these things.

1.

I am enjoying the conversation on here very much, and appreciate the chance
to learn from people who think about this and know a lot about it. Most of
you are deeper tech than me, being at this point a gifted business side
analyst and marketing guy.

I think we need to focus on a set of documents and steps.

A competitive analysis of several of the top current sites, and probably
some of the lesser known ones

What slots, or functionalities are needed to be represented.

A set of must haves, and nice to haves.

Comments and finally voting on each.

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I have thought about this a lot though, how to conquer facebook, and to
develop a next generational web. To be honest with you I feel I have a
rubric for a multitouch marketing campaign to over come network effects, by
a concentrated attack with flash and substance, leading back. The campaign
itself, will provide a vigorous use case for improving the system itself.

The reason I am interested in this is less the idea of being on the next
social media than two things, one, control of my individual data, and 2.
free access to aggregate data. I know this might be a sticking point, but I
think there is a real chance to produce the kinds of insights about
humanity as whole that we have never seen before. Not only social; so we
can see how hypocritical some social norms are, but also medical- the cures
of many diseases lies behind a centralized medical record system, which
could be part of a singular id. I think if geographical records of access
is kept, we can make such as system secure.

 I worry less about the ability of a just government to find out what
happened, but if there is aggregate data out there about me I want to know
about it.  If this just government accesses my records, I want to know
about it.

The opportunity is there, right now, people are awake, and upset about
privacy concerns, the whole country left and right, and Facebooks
popularity has been falling off anyway.

I also think any system of data storage should be kept by a simple
contextual measures origin, time and space, for people, places, things, and
organizations.

Thanks for listening, and appreciate any questions.. as this is shorter
than I want it to be, as I am time constrainted.

Darrell