The next big social networking tool is... Thunderbird?

[Phillip Mills]

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> Interesting take... from The Economist, no less.

Definitely interesting.  I've been seeing a lot of related discussion 
on LiveJournal where changes of ownership have been upsetting the 
assumptions of people (content providers) about their relationship to 
those who want to make money from social networking.

It seems like it would be a good time to start from zero and define 
features people actually want...then see how to get there.  Some of the 
initiatives I've heard about feature:
1) User control of their own content.
2) A non-fragile scheme for making connections to other people
3) An organization/categorization/publication method
4) Utility features such as indexing, a common API....

Much or all of this may already be available, but having an easy and 
common interface to it would be a big step.  Whether that happens in 
Thunderbird or as a super-RSS Firefox plugin, I don't know.
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