App.net And The Need for Social Networking Standards

Dalton has announced that APP.net will use Activitystream.es, Webfinger, RSS, pubSubHubbub. (not sure about Salmon, an excellent open web standard)

Albert Wenger is a venture capitalist at Union square Ventures (earliest investor in Twitter).

So it's genuine statesmanship that he would praise APP.net for its effort on openness.

@Blaine (a world-class expert, open web protocols) Applauded the article, as did I and nearly all 17 commenters.

It just that kind of "crossing the aisle" collaboration the tech world (and Silicon Valley) needs to produce a protocol as superb as email or HTML for social networks (federation). Beautifully written.

Sounds good, but how does this fit with the app.net, $50 per year model? AFAIK, app.net is still supposed to be a walled-in social network, but with supposedly better support for third-party developers, no ads, and less spam.

I think the $50 model is going to get changed. My bet is that businesses building social into their sites off of the app.net infrastructure will end up paying. That was just to see if it was pursuing. Its not better support for 3rd party devs, the entire focus is 3rd party devs.

Dalton did back standards

http://daltoncaldwell.com/a-response-to-brennan-novak