It would be very easy.
They could release an update to IE which consisted of a script which removed IE and downloaded Firefox 3, accompanied with an apology for IE ever having existed.
I’m just saying. I’d respect them more if they did it, for one.
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Reading Scoble’s post on Facebook & Microsoft, and I have to say, it sounds like something Microsoft would do. It sounds like an offer FB would be crazy to refuse.
My first thought is that we need an alternative to Facebook that is not only open architecture, but open source. Ideally, it would be distributed.
I’m thinking of Wordpress as an example; I host my Wordpress blog on my own server, but because I have an Wordpress.com account, I get some benefits of being automatically connected to Wordpress.com: stats, akismet, the rest of the Wordpress network, etc.
What if we had a distributed social network? That is, a social network a la Facebook or MySpace where you could be connected to everyone you know who is using the system (or a compatible system)… but you could, if you wanted, host your personal profile on your own server. If you were to have ads on your profile page, you would make the money, not Facebook or MySpace. It would be just as connected, just as networked, using API’s, maybe OpenSocial to play nice with others… whatever. An… Openbook, if you will. Though it could be called anything.
I’m not building something like this yet, but I’d be happy to talk and work with others who’d want to. I think it’s technically feasible, and given the possibilities of a closed Micro-face-soft-book, sounds to me like a really good idea.
