I find this an interesting remark, in all likelyhood, corporate platforms do reverse engineering, ie. they start from user needs and build backwards,<br><br>the opposite strategy, building a pure internet but not looking at user needs, may suffer in comparison,<br>
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Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:32 AM<br>Subject: New answer to "What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?"<br>To: <a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a><br>
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Some other characteristics to note involve practical usability, eg. what happens after I plug in the magic black box I just bought:<br><br><ul><li><b>Discoverability</b> - how do I find friends and interesting things?</li>
<li><b>Aggregation</b> - how can I follow friends and interesting things I find?</li><li><b>Publishing</b> - how can I broadcast interesting things to my friends and followers?</li></ul><br>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.<br>
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