of course it's not too late. silly title. i agree with the conclusion though: "It would be an outstanding thing to see an open platform challenge the Faceboo

of course it's not too late. silly title. i agree with the conclusion though: "It would be an outstanding thing to see an open platform challenge the Facebooks of the world. Without a doubt, smart purveyors of such a platform could leverage the openness, and potentially win users over with it. That idea already prompted our post "Why Does FOSS Development Lag the Innovation Curve?" The funny thing is, though, even though open source platforms and applications compete in so many other application categories, there is almost no real competition from the open source community in the social networking space. That needs to change."