I made a comment on the (Facebook) -> (Social Networking Microsoft) possiblity a few days ago on a similar thread that was up here. I believe at this point only pmarca and Ning have a decent shot at saving us from this nightmare. On the other hand if someone could throw together an open-platform API for social info sharing, this could prevent Facebook from locking up the market.
If no one is able to do this in the next six months, it is going to be a long hard messy few years for social networking, esp. since Facebook places your data behind lock and key. That will be a lot of unrecoverable data after three or four more years.
Any one want to form a startup to challenge Facebook? I'd love to take on Zuckerburgler.
If no one is able to do this in the next six months, it is going to be a long hard messy few years for social networking, esp. since Facebook places your data behind lock and key. That will be a lot of unrecoverable data after three or four more years.
Any one want to form a startup to challenge Facebook? I'd love to take on Zuckerburgler.