(This was posted as a comment in a discussion about the redesigned Google Reader on G+) I’ve been mulling this idea for a long time. In one line: One man’s +1 is another man’s -1 When reddit became popular, the biggest frustration for me was the abundance of kittens. (Don’t get me wrong, I love [...]
In 2006, I was mulling the idea of applying concept of federation to social networking. Four years passed, and lo and behold! We have status.net in production, GnuSocial(/daisychain), OneSocialWeb, Diaspora and probably others in development. Not that everyhting is rosy – centralized propriatory “social networks” are still far ahead in terms of usability and feature-completeness, [...]
Social networking is the very prerequisite for the Civilization. The better your connections are, the more successful is your career. The better connections are in a society, the faster progress of the society is. Therefore, there is a great incentive to improve the opportunities for social networking on both individual and community levels. Given that, [...]