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September 6, 2012 04:05 pm

Bring On the Decentralized Social Networking


Frequent contributor Bennett Haselton writes: "The distributed-social-networkingDiaspora Project recently announced that their software will bereleased as open source. I don't know if Diaspora specifically will be the Next Big Thing in social networking, but I hope that social networking moves to a decentralizedmodel within the next few years, where anyone can set up and run a hub to administer profiles for themselves and their friends or clients, and where profiles can interact witheach other in a distributed fashion instead of on a centralized system like Facebook." Read on for Bennett's thoughts on how that model could work.

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