Break open the walled gardens

March 26, 2008 in open
Tags: membership, walled garden

The Economist sees little future for walled garden social networking sites like Facebook and Second Life if they continue to restrict the flow of content across the Internet. A few years back we had AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy each providing their own subscription-based services, and look what happened to them:
Why stay within a closed community [...]