Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster

Read a summary of findings at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/03/google-facebook-nothing-lasts-for-ever

Quite an interesting study here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6109

Adoption remains a key challenge for the federated social networks that
have, to date, tended to operate as balkanized islands, each with their own
protocol.

Perhaps some lessons from this story can help us to think of ways to
challenge the dominant players...