Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, and author living in Sarasota, Florida (United States) with his wife and four sons. He's the founder of 
Tuesday 11 May 2010
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative →
Ryan Singel, writing for Wired:
It’s time for the best of the tech community to find a way to let people control what and how they’d like to share. Facebook’s basic functions can be turned into protocols, and a whole set of interoperating software and services can flourish.
Think of being able to buy your own domain name and use simple software such as Posterous to build a profile page in the style of your liking. You’d get to control what unknown people get to see, while the people you befriend see a different, more intimate page. They could be using a free service that’s ad-supported, which could be offered by Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, a bevy of startups or web-hosting services like Dreamhost.
While I’d love to see Facebook lose its AOL-in-the-90s grip on the web, Ryan’s vision of an open alternative is nothing more than a pipe dream, I’m afraid. About the only “open” anything gaining traction these days—despite all the hype and chatter about open over the past decade—is HTML5.
And, as someone pointed out in the comments, the real irony of this argument is the Facebook “Like” button at the end of the article.
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agree with Moll that it’s unlikely a free-and-open alternative will supplant Facebook. Singel’s suggestion of using...
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