This article is a bit confusing, I'm not sure it is stating its view in the simplest way. Trying to explain that view to someone else I'd do like this: Twitter

This article is a bit confusing, I'm not sure it is stating its view in the simplest way. Trying to explain that view to someone else I'd do like this: Twitter, Facebook and the like should be like emails: if you send me an email from hotmail I can read it on gmail or any other mall client. I should be able to subscribe to friends, interesting people or other social content provider and consume this comment from the client of my choice. Something that Google reader was not very far to provide. Wrote something about this view sometime ago: http://www.douban.com/note/174513094/ http://www.douban.com/note/174513094/