Facebook is the new AOL
Categories: [ Grumbling ]
Many years ago, AOL was providing users with online services, but kept them well isolated from the Internet. It took ages until AOL finally opened itself to the rest of the Internet. Nowadays, such a provider of online services is unthinkable. But this situation still exists for mobile online services (think i-Mode) and social networks. I was about to write something about it, but the Appleseed project did it already. They also propose a solution, which is technically accessible with nowaday's technology (and was also already accessible with yesterday's). If this project (or one of the other distributed social network projects) succeeds, maybe ten years from now we'll have real open social networks.
The next step will then be to find a use for those (other than the “my network is bigger than yours” contests).
[ Posted on May 6th, 2009 at 17:47 | no comment | permanent link ]
