sundar22in

grails is the best framework I have seen so far. sensible defaults inspired from rails is good. you don't have to learn groovy since it is a superset of java. you can learn on the way .... very less entry barrier and learning curve

> Also before twitter/facebook, we had email - a distributed > social network. How is the "new" distributed social network > going to be better than email?

Imagine you cannot use a word document created in windows cannot be used in linux or mac. Imagine YOU need to use windows just because other people use. Will this be good?

Choice of operating system is upto you and you must be able to exchange data across operating systems. That "interoperability" is needed for any good system. You don't need interoperability only if you want to monopolize the market.

It's like email. It should not matter in which social network our friends are, we should be able to communicate with each other.

Imagine that today you can only send email from gmail to gmail account. If that is the state today, won't we think of decentralizing email now?

Having a choice is a good thing, and one size would not fit all.

Its a great advice !!!

Writing a diary can be few minutes every day.

I would like to keep personal stuff private, its not a good idea to make everything public.