Scoble likes what Chris Messina has to say.  Me too.  Favorite quotes from this post:

I’m coming over to Eran and others‘ point that 1) it’s too early to standardize and 2) it probably isn’t necessary anyway. Go ahead, let a thousand flowers bloom.

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…..propaganda needs to be free to be effective. In other words, you’re not going to convince people of your way of thinking if you lock down what you have, especially if what you have is culture, a mindset or some other philosophical approach that helps people narrow down what constitutes right and wrong.

Look, if Martin Luther had nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door but had ensconced them in DRM, he would not have been as effective at bringing about the Reformation.

Likewise, the future of the social web will not be built on proprietary, closed-source protocols and standards. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Google wants OpenSocial to be an “open standard” and Facebook wants to be the openemest of them all!

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That Facebook is attempting to open source it platform, to me, sounds like offering the world a different rail gauge specification for building train tracks.

Right on brother!

Chris brings up Joeseph Smarr’s post and presentation on OpenSocial, OpenID, oAuth from Google I/O.  Clearly Plaxo has their own version of the world- which supports open standards AND proprietary ones - as well. I wonder if they’ll open source their platform?  Joseph fights the right fight for all of us - you gotta love him for that. The fact that Plaxo is now owned by COMCAST just makes this all the more perverse.

I really like Joseph and I respect Chris and his DiSO project - which some folks are starting to use.  I also really agree that chaos and random events is the strategy which will form the open mesh.  There will NOT be one way, there will NOT be JUST open standards, but a hodge podge of everything.

Guys like Chris and I may WANT open standards, but those take time to evolve. In the meantime (even though Michael Arrington thinks it’s compromising) I believe we HAVE to work with all these proprietary standards - to at least deliver compelling experiences to our customers.

Chris’ musing over the future of the social web clearly point out that we’re gonna have platform wars, whether we like it or not.  Now the question is - how can we have our cake and eat it too?

Which beings me to Steve Gillmor’s Plan B post, which deserves it’s own response post.  Hopefully I’ll find time for that - today.

Now the Silverlight juggernaut commences 

And the benefits of the Live Contacts alliance start to appear.  You can now connect Live Messenger to Facebook chat.  So the Borg has meshed with Facebook.  United against the Googlers of Mountain View.  The wars continue.

I sure hope that the future of social computing is more than content spewing.  But you gotta love those spewers.  I can see the t-shirt now “Spewers R us” - or at least the Hugh cartoon.  Stowe inclinates Social TV - I sure as hell HOPE it’ll be interactive and understand who my friends are and where I am.

Pete Cashmore is considering doing the ‘Loic-thing’ and moving here to the Bay Area to be part of the insider’s game.  Sure Pete - why not?  Can’t hurt - right?  You could always move back - or move somewhere else.

Twitter won’t become the next Friendster - simply because they’re starting to listen and fess up. Friendster never did that.  But they COULD become the next Netscape.

What!  Adobe/Macromedia having troubles with their web software?  No!  It can’t be!

Flock is becoming more and more a DLA (digital lifestyle aggregator.)  Hmmmmmm

Some comments become conversations, while most remain replies.

I’ll be speaking at Widget Expo in NYC June 16th

Social network in a gadget? 

The future of mobile social networking 

NFL Players grandparent’s house blown away in twister - grandfather survives. 

Welcome Soceeo - to the world of meta-networks (which is what I call Ning, Flux,  etc.).  I don’t consider any of those folks to be white labeled social networking though.  That’s what we do and others like us.  Except of course that there’s NO ONE like Broadband Mechanics!  But the hosted social network game is what I call ‘meta-networks‘.

What happens if you go down and no one notices? 

Imagine that - connecting your own ad network to your 20 web sites.   Somebody give that man a cigar!

Cat fight 

I sure thought this was gonna  happen - like 4 years ago. So much for being a visionary.  And Adobe finally offering on-line apps  At least four years late!  But give credit to the new CEO at Adobe - Shantanu Narayen - for doing the right thing!

Plurk, Tegra, ThoughtMesh, Firefox3, NewsJunk, Opposing Views, Grockit,

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