Appleseed is the way that social networking will inevitably evolve: it is an open source, distributed social networking platform. Just as anyone can set up an email server and send emails to users on any other, when this project reaches fruition, anyone will be able to set up a social networking server and befriend users on any other.

In addition, its modular architecture will allow users and developers to create plugins for it (like Firefox’s extensions), that will surely make it grow in many unexpected directions. I’d like to see filesharing (in particular, for open source programs) and bookmark sharing (like del.icio.us) implemented as modules.

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