I find this an interesting remark, in all likelyhood, corporate platforms do reverse engineering, ie. they start from user needs and build backwards, the opposite strategy, building a pure internet but not looking at user needs, may suffer in comparison, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quora <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:32 AM Subject: New answer to "What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?" To: [email protected] [image: Quora]New answer to "What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?" *Leslie Michael Orchard*: Some other characteristics to note involve practical usability, eg. what happens after I plug in the magic black box I just bought: - *Discoverability* - how do I find friends and interesting things? - *Aggregation* - how can I follow friends and interesting things I find? - *Publishing* - how can I broadcast interesting things to my friends and followers? These are some of the things that centralized communication services are nailing, at the moment. No matter how the underlying fabric of a distributed net is made, if it doesn't serve some of these basic human-centric needs, it won't take off. *To see the question page with all answers, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/i9BzsP5d* Thanks, The Quora Team We sent you this email because you are following this question. To stop following it, click this link: http://www.quora.com/l/8DHhjNRn/_STOP_FOLLOWING To control which emails we send you, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/jsDhmsV8 This email was sent by Quora, a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. To disable all email from Quora, visit the following link: http://www.quora.com/l/K3HE3bvA -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens