Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?

The prospect of a distributed, interoperable, self-hosted network of
publishing, reading and discussion tools is nothing new - but the idea
is gaining a lot more support as more people react to recent news like
FriendFeed's sale to Facebook, Tr.im's up and down and Twitter's
denial of service attacks. The tide may not be turning, but there's
sure to be some new waves of innovation that come out of this period
of frustration.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_a_perfect_storm_forming_for_distributed_social_networking.php

Quite a mainstream articles.  Looking at the comments, the answer
seems to be a resounding "yes".  Though I think in reality their will
be a mix between centralized and decentralized networks (just like
today we have a mix between personal email and webmail).

Received on Wednesday, 12 August 2009 08:13:12 UTC