What we need in a next-gen social network

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2013/11/24/facebook-grandparents-need-next-gen-social-network/

Quite an interesting post.

Addressing a few of the ideas.  "Self determined data storage" -- this
seems to be a place things are not done well.  Most social nets claim that
you 'own your own data' but in reality you must store it in the place (or
one of the places) that they demand.  A truly federated social web would
let users store data where *they* choose.  To date we have almost not a
single solution to this.

Income and commerce.  I think this could be a killer feature.  New
technologies such as bitcoin and the w3c payments group could allow a whole
new set of incentives, to be aligned with value and content creation.
Leading to much more equitable eco systems.

Tool set for hackers.  Actually I think the current platforms are not bad,
but so much more can be done.  We have a few APIs but each API is different
and APIs tend to restrict what you can do.  What would be good is open
ended tools for hackers so that sophisticated algorithms and apps can be
built that flow out of the transnational sandboxes -- perhaps even apps
talking to apps.

I'm believe that next generation Linked Data networks can federate together
to solve these challenges.  If we can get enough people starting to work on
such solutions maybe there is still a chance to challenge many of the web
2.0 walled gardens ...