I have been spending a lot of time looking into how to best solve the web's current facebook problem. I'm especially interested in approaches to distributed soc

I have been spending a lot of time looking into how to best solve the web's current facebook problem. I'm especially interested in approaches to distributed social networking (think what the Diaspora guys are aiming at). With that preface, it's my impression right now that https://singly.com https://singly.com deserves a serious look from communities such as hacker news. So, I'm mentioning it here. A little about them: they're led by the guy who created XMPP (aka Jabber). He's written a new distributed protocol based on JSON instead of XML ( http://www.telehash.org/ http://www.telehash.org/ ). They've been joined by the guy who lead Canonical (publishers of Ubuntu). Like Wordpress, they are part free software project and part optional hosting company. No, I am not affiliated with them. But I am really thinking that I would like to be...