[Social] Proposed use case for shared roster access - was: Roster Sequencing - with labels?

[Massimiliano Mirra]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:15 PM, anders conbere <aconbere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most social network services today provide tools for a set of people
>  with share interests. Be it TripIt, LastFM, or Facebook. For lots of
>  these networks they derive their valuation from a locked in user
>  model. But for smaller Social Network services they're value for the
>  creators is in (for the most part) the quality of the users
>  participating and the number of users participating.

+1

While the barrier of entry for web development has gone down
dramatically with affordable hosting and OSS stacks, it's still very
high when the the value an app can convey depends on size of user base
and relationships.  I think neither users nor most developers are
happy about this.  Solving this by leveraging a decentralized network
(as opposed to just building on something like Facebook) would be
<understatement>nice</understatement>.




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Massimiliano Mirra
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