Why standards, open source are important to a great leap forward in social networking

I can’t follow the code of reblg, but I know it is a good idea. And that is just one of Marc’s good ideas here. Read for yourself.

The dream is that distributed social networks will mesh with individuals–each who are on multiple social networks–and that the whole thing kind of slides up next to the blogosphere and extends the notion of a free, open, distributed Long Tail environment. Microcontent is part of it–but people are at the center.

Tags: Distributed | networks | open source | Social Networks | Standards