Todd Sampson

Dad, Sailor, Tech Entrepreneur

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Sunday, 02.10.08

Distributed Social Networks have Tipped

Finn Partying at Baby Loves Disco on FlickrThe last several months we have seen the launch of OpenSocial, Data Portability, DiSo, Google’s Social Graph, and many related efforts. I have also noticed the MyBlogLog Reader Roll on nearly every site that I visit. (Even with the amazing MyBlogLog growth numbers of the last year, I thought it was probably just my mind targeting the MyBlogLog widget. But I have heard the same thing from three separate people over the last week alone.)

It’s time to party! The Social DNA of the large, closed social networks has started to weave its way into nearly every site on the Internet. The idea of distributed social networks, which MyBlogLog was founded on, has officially hit the tipping point.

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