The pendulum does always swing away from a walled garden. The author makes a compelling case for Wordpress as a distributed and open potential social platform.
Love to hear what Matt thinks about it.
Love to hear what Matt thinks about it.
I sympathise with the sentiment expressed but must point out that there is no market force that prefers un-established open products to established walled gardens save for a fraction of hackers' tastes and preferences. Most people don't care, for rationally self-interested reasons, whether the product they use is open or closed as much as whether it works or not.
Oh, yes there is, it's called change.
Closed systems overturn open systems just as much as the other way around (or closed v closed or open v open). Very few people outside hacker culture care whether what they use is open or closed.
I'm not predicting that Wordpress will supersede Facebook, but I do predict that something will eventually. Of all the alternatives known to me, Wordpress is a fascinating suggestion.
1) The existing platform being annoying/uninteresting/distrusted. 2) A small but "cool" section migrating to a new platform.
Facebook won by being adopted by an effective wedge group - college student. Those who open source might (or might not) be a different but effective wedge group.