This poison company will simply be another footnote in history. Mainly because of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2689512
Microsoft should have stayed far, far away.
Microsoft should have stayed far, far away.
Facebook seems like the only company that can bring a real network of users to something like this. Google has GMail, but they haven't been able to translate it into any type of social experience at scale.
But their strategy would indicate that they wouldn't implement federation. They would create their own closed system. Facebook is all about growing the value of their social graph, but with very limited interconnection or federation.