Why is everyone jumping through hoops now, just because BigCorp is holding up another free fish? You are still in the fuckin' pool!
It is only bigger and has other bling
Is Google+ supporting the relevant 'Distributed Social' protocols, like OAuth, Salmon, FOAF, Activity Streams, so that I can interconnect from other social networks (like Diaspora)?
If not, then no matter how shmancy fancy it is, it is not something we should want.
I can email from yahoo to gmail to myownmailserver. Social Networking should be no different from this. Remember the times when you could only send messages from Compuserve to Compuserve and vom AOL to AOL?
Why repeat the same thing with social networking?
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Why is everyone jumping through hoops now, just because BigCorp is holding up another free fish? You are still in the fuckin' pool! It is only bigger and has other bling
Is Google+ supporting the relevant 'Distributed Social' protocols, like OAuth, Salmon, FOAF, Activity Streams, so that I can interconnect from other social networks (like Diaspora)?
If not, then no matter how shmancy fancy it is, it is not something we should want.
I can email from yahoo to gmail to myownmailserver. Social Networking should be no different from this. Remember the times when you could only send messages from Compuserve to Compuserve and vom AOL to AOL? Why repeat the same thing with social networking?
/rant
-jsl
Most of us don't care about that though.
If Twitter goes under, I'm not going to want my tweets back or my friendlist back. I'm going to want Twitter back.