Yes, they also need some branding strategy. Facebook is a lame name, but at least it gets its point across. <br clear="all"><br><br>~ ~ ~<br>thoughts / <a href="http://fredbenenson.com/blog">http://fredbenenson.com/blog</a> <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Rich Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miserlou@gmail.com">miserlou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sadly, the abundance of these is the very reason they will all fail.<br>
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Open standards are the only standards.<br>
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Stephen Paul Weber<br>
<<a href="mailto:singpolyma@singpolyma.net">singpolyma@singpolyma.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I personally think that BuddyPress <<a href="http://buddypress.org/" target="_blank">http://buddypress.org/</a>>, a social<br>
>> networking modification to Wordpress MU, has a lot of potential, and I<br>
>> think that if they add in federation / cross-site communication like<br>
>> Identica/Laconica it could be a good Facebook replacement.<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Gabriel Joel Perez<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:gabrieljoel@gmail.com">gabrieljoel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > In the past many members of Free Culture have expressed interest on the idea<br>
>> > of a decentralized social network. Well there seems to be an organization<br>
>> > working on a protocol and implementation for such a thing,<br>
>> > <a href="http://noserub.com/" target="_blank">http://noserub.com/</a> . It looks really interesting, I really hope it catches<br>
>> > on.<br>
><br>
> Another good project working on this stuff is <<a href="http://diso-project.org" target="_blank">http://diso-project.org</a>><br>
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