Before I go on my rant I want to thank Boonex for providing free social networking software. It's the best free SN on the market.

I have made a grand total of $0.00 using Dolphin software and I started with Dolphin 5. Had I had to do it all over I would have studied PHP and designed my own site.

I was using PHPFOX but I do not like their new version 2.x at all. After leasing and spending several thousand dollars over a few year period I have nothing to show. After leasing all those years see more PHPFOX did not even apply any of the money towards version 2.xxx. They lost a customer just like that. At least Dolphin is free. Probably Trident will be pretty cool but it may take Boonex 10 years to release it. I am not planning any business around any SN software because Andrew has it right about peer to peer. Why take on the costs of hosting videos and audio when each individual consumer has all the horsepower on their own computer already? Andrew knows that the Internet will change radically in the next few years.

Here is where I think Boonex is on traget and here is where I think they are off target...

"With WebHome, we are trying to look into the future and work towards keeping Internet free."

Andrew is a dreamer but he is correct on this one.

Here is the future of SN software: for 49.95 people will buy software (probably in c++) that is hosted on their own home computer. It will be much more powerful the any LAMP based software. The SN applications will be peer to peer. Hosting audio and video on the Internet makes no sense. It's too expensive and inefficient. Let home users use their computers. I have a kick ass computer and in a few years I will get a new one. The amount of computing horsepower keeps growing while the limits are LAMP become more obvious each day. Imagine using each customers computer to do the work of a LAMP server. No way can LAMP compete and Boonex knows this.