I'm of the opinion there aren't a lot of good alternative ideas circulating. There's been some work in a design pattern libraries but it's hard to design new fe

I'm of the opinion there aren't a lot of good alternative ideas circulating. There's been some work in a design pattern libraries but it's hard to design new features from the outside, and I don't think until very recently people saw starting a rival social network as a good business move, since social networks are defined by their network effect moat. Twitter's meltdown has created some opportunity but it remains to be seen if the attack of the clones is just a fracturing versus a cambrian event.