I designed a simple protocol, which can help develop a world of interest-centric activity based social networks.<p>2013, might well be the end of the "Social Utility" model.<p>Disclosure: This is a rewrite of a post that generated some interest last week-end, but addressed some of the concerns people had about it.
Just like feature films, the overriding consensus about success or failure is "nobody know anything". Clearly protocols have changed the world, the Gopher protocol was pretty good but HTTP just wiped it out. X.25 was an expensive, molasses slow, networking technology but until quite recently the only asynchronous network that could be found literally anywhere in the world. (Likely you've never heard of it but there were/(are?) mission critical applications run over it).<p>Probably a good bet that something will come along that wipes up Facebook and parts of Google within the next 20 years, but just like betting it all on one horse, doesn't matter how good your insider knowledge if she breaks a leg in that one big race.<p>A non- proprietary distributed fault tolerant, respectful of each users sense of privacy, easy to implement, robust, fast, easily searched, resistant to corporate and governmental abuse, social protocol... seems like a good idea to me.
I just think it's cool in Google+ are the communities it there and then if that is your concern with your protocol for Google+ is joining closer friends in the real world now knows that the Chinese social network called WeChat with over 200 million users has a revolutionary feature that lets you connect to your closest friends in reality or in the real world takes this link and read what functionality does: <a href="http://www.wechatapp.com/pt/#features.htmlaround" rel="nofollow">http://www.wechatapp.com/pt/#features.htmlaround</a>
I think he's correct in some of his predictions. I don't care to interact virtually with acquaintances and would rather make new real-world friends. I started building SociaLocale for this exact reason. It's an interest and location based social tool. It's in super-duper alpha at the moment, but can be found at <a href="http://socialocale.appspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://socialocale.appspot.com</a> . Will eventually do a Show HN once I'm confident it'll handle the load :)
This post seem convoluted but heading in the right direction. Social interaction should be like emails: a client you choose and a protocol to communicate with other clients.
I think the owner of this post was given money with Google to make it this post, he is praising Google+ and debunking facebook, everything he posted does not make sense to me