There are voices clamoring for the opening up of the Facebook network. So will it happen?
Sure!
It happened with Email than a decade ago (Yes, there was a time, when email couldn't be sent if the recipient was with a different provider). IM started a couple of years ago. (ICQ+AOL, MSN+Yahoo). We are also now talking about an open document format. So, yes. there is a demand for a unified standard for interoperability.
The next may well be social networks. Facebook as the dominant leader (I know orkut is larger, but in the hipper circles of India (and I suspect in other countries as well) Facebook is de rigueur) will be the last of the lot to jump onto the open standards bit. But it will happen as the market matures.
Whether Facebook will survive as a independent company is another matter. Like Jeff Bezo's said, "I guarantee that five years from now, no one will want to be a social-networking company". This was last year, that leaves four years to go...
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