http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/27/when-the-walls-come-down-will-a-business-be-left-behind/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/27/when-the-walls-come-down-will-a-business-be-left-behind/comment-page-1/#comment-106974 Eric Blair Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:01:12 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/27/when-the-walls-come-down-will-a-business-be-left-behind/#comment-106974 I agree with the Economist's claim that open standards will prevail in social networking. However, I question if major social networks like Facebook and MySpace would want to work together to build bridges between their communities? Wouldn't one of the two companies be afraid that they'd lose ad-clicks to the other? This question led me to consider the power of currently unknown open source social networking platforms like Elgg(http://elgg.org/). I can envision the programming community building bridges behind such platforms to other social networks easier than some of the bigger players like Facebook. If Facebook is playing the role of Microsoft, are players like PeopleAggregator the next Linux? I agree with the Economist’s claim that open standards will prevail in social networking. However, I question if major social networks like Facebook and MySpace would want to work together to build bridges between their communities? Wouldn’t one of the two companies be afraid that they’d lose ad-clicks to the other? This question led me to consider the power of currently unknown open source social networking platforms like Elgg(http://elgg.org/). I can envision the programming community building bridges behind such platforms to other social networks easier than some of the bigger players like Facebook. If Facebook is playing the role of Microsoft, are players like PeopleAggregator the next Linux?

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