Trillian is either a good or bad example, depending on your perspective. I don't want to have N IM accounts; I want to have one account/identity that can reach everyone. That has not happened with IM and I am skeptical that it will happen with social networking.
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Trillian http://www.trillian.im/ have been selling their cross-platform and interoperable IM client for over a decade.
If people didn't want Eric's interoperable IM client, it wasn't for lack of a market.
Trillian is either a good or bad example, depending on your perspective. I don't want to have N IM accounts; I want to have one account/identity that can reach everyone. That has not happened with IM and I am skeptical that it will happen with social networking.
A niche market != significant adoption.
I know lots of people using Linux on the desktop too. It's a market, but isn't really significant in comparison to its competition.