On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 08:37 -0700, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 16:45 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Here is an article on upcoming social networking enhancements to Google, > > called Google+. Inspirational for conceptual (and, if web-based, > > interface) design, and scary in other aspects. > > Indeed, I was admiring the concept of 'circles' and the integration with > mobile. There are many scary aspects that we all know already, but I > wanted to focus on the good news a bit. I believe that if Google+ can > pull the rug under Facebook's feet we'll be in a much better place to > position our FreedomBox. I wrote today on my blog: > > The good news is that Google+ can demonstrate to all the users > that they don’t have to put all their data in Facebook in order > to get valuable information. The success of Google+ will show > that there are alternatives and that change is a good thing. > This paves the way to other changes and innovation, including to > the FreedomBox. Having alternatives is good, they bring choice > and they help breaking the habits. One more reason to push on > the accelerators and build the FreedomBox. > > what do you think?
Agreed! And so does today's xkcd: http://xkcd.com/918/ -Aaron _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
