I’m listening to Leo Laporte on live.twit.tv during a taping of TWiG (I think), and they are discussing Facebook’s recent privacy issues. It’s funny because they won’t admit the real topic they’re are discussing, that is social apps do not belong in the cloud. The problem with the cloud is that it forces users to surrender control over their data and privacy.
What happened to the old days when we built social applications like email, which is distributed and allows us to keep control of our data? Could we not build applications like Facebook and Twitter in the same way using some kind of distributed P2P like architecture?
I think this is the future, and the service that will kill Facebook and Twitter will be built this way. Whoever comes up with the distributed/P2P social architecture will become very rich by evaporating the cloud.
Blogs are a good place to start.
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