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I think the pendulum will swing back to open pretty soon, it kind of feels we're at the black end of closedness in terms of the social graph. In fact, a great

• moe 16y ago
  I agree. The headline reads like "Horse-carriage threatening the future of transportation". Facebook is merely the latest evolutionary milestone, and it's crackling already. There was once a time when AOL and compuserve defined what Joe Sixpack would have called "the internet" when asked. It shattered and we entered the era of portals (yahoo, lycos), whose dominance, again, faded when the first worthwhile search engines came around. Today we're just seeing the latest cycle in this pattern, the new concept now being the social graph. And just like before it's at first being beta-tested and refined in a small number of closed silos (facebook, twitter), simply because implementation, experimentation and monetization are so much easier in a closed ecosystem. Now that the concepts have matured it's a matter of time before the good parts break out into distributed protocols and services, which will incrementally erode the monoliths. Internet evolution at work, nothing to see here, please move along.
  • marv_in 16y ago
    ...or internet devolution if you were to consider the opposite side. Which ironically is a topic that would scream "worry now". In the end such topics beg the question: How can we figure out whether we are merely circlejerking in FUD or an issue needs to be fixed now and this visionary is right?
• jdp23 16y ago
  totally agreed. it's interesting how many people I've talked to who think Facebook may be close to hitting a wall. we shall see...