On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > If you've got an open decentralized social network.. then why would you need > to invite anybody? to where exactly? and why a 'big bang', I can see why if > you're 'just another silo' trying to play catch up with twitter, facebook et > al - but not for this - unless of course, I completely misunderstand what > everybodies thinking & talking about. > > Regardless though, virality (?sp), is completely built in - make good, > useful tools, where the user controls their own destiny+data, and you're > done - build it well and the masses will come, build it badly and.. well no > loss in the scheme of things because other will build good things :) > > AFAICT, this isn't really a flash in the pan thing, a miss it and you've > messed up scenario - this is the ground work for the next generation of the > web - pretty much an unstoppable movement. > > :)
Yes, the real distributed 'social network' is just the Web itself; or if you prefer a more sociological reading of 'social network', then it's just all of humanity. No blink-and-you-missed it. No nagging emails hassling you to join and telling you what you're missing. Just "people and networks and stuff." (from the archives, http://rdfweb.org/mod.html) But +1 on picking a few deployed tools and working through some user-facing integration scenarios cheers, Dan
