Google+ is another iteration towards a fuller understanding of what people want for "social networking" online. Eventually, our understanding will stabilize som

Google+ is another iteration towards a fuller understanding of what people want for "social networking" online. Eventually, our understanding will stabilize somewhat, and we'll have a pretty good idea of what it means to "provide a social networking service." Today we now know what it means to "provide an email service", and you can choose from a variety of email service providers that all interoperate. That's the vision of Diaspora (and a number of similar efforts): to enable you to choose from a variety of interoperating service providers (communicating with each other by standard protocols).