Over the years, I have agreed much more frequently with Dave Winer than I have disagreed with him. And when he says "I think the Internet itself is a social network" I find myself agreeing with him again. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are the AOLs or CompuServs of the 2010s - online services that will wither come the day the internet supports genuine social networking capacity. That day is not long now. "Using standards we already have, like HTTP, HTML, RSS, DNS, OPML, JSON -- you can make a news net that is as open and distributed as the Internet itself. There's no company in the middle, anymore than there's a company in the middle of the Internet." Be sure to look at Winer's list of stories describing how such a system might work.
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