Reflecting on an earlier post I made last week, I read an article in the business section of The Economist that provided more understanding of open-source networks. It points to how more nimble this makes social networking than actually going to a web site such as Facebook. This concept will come more to light as time goes on, and then those who wish to market something will have to re-evaluate once again.
The Economist says, "The opening of social networks may now accelerate thanks to that older next big thing, web-mail. As a technology, mail has come to seem rather old-fashioned. But Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and other firms are now discovering that they may already have the ideal infrastructure for social networking in the form of the address books, in-boxes and calendars of their users. "
To learn more about open source, go to the Open Source Initiative. Wikipedia defines open source as: "Open source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software, the most important of which is that the source code is openly available. The Open Source Definition, which was created by Bruce Perens for the Debian project and is currently maintained by the Open Source Initiative, adds additional meaning to the term: one should not only get the source code but also have the right to use it. If the latter is denied the license is categorized as a shared source license."
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