I Support The Open Social Web

Basically the Open Social Web manifesto argues that social tool developers have to open up their systems in ways that would support interoperability through cross-connection and bleed-over (where posts or other information in one place is aggregated and reposted in another). Ok, I'm in, spiritually, Marc.

However, I bet that the path to a richer world for integration will be paved with different architectural principles, in particular the spread of specific social components gaining wide use by developers. Instead of building inductively -- building "openness" into applications in the absence of specific purpose, but some generalized notion of information ownership -- we are more likely to see the rise of deductive openness: specific facilities for interoperability between applications will arise, and tool makers will adopt them. As just one example, the widespread emergence of RSS in social tools has been driven by the utility and practicality of that model of openness in and of itself, not as an element of a philosophical drive for generalized openness.

Still, the principles that underlie the Bill Of Rights are laudable, so I happy to support it.