"Internet is an oligopoly now - FB, Twitter, eBay, Google, Apple, Amazon,etc."

Amazon and Apple will survive. Google keeps raking in billions because they have purchased such massive amounts of computing horsepower that it's astonishing. Some of my sites are indexed in a staggering 20 minutes lafter new contact is posted. That is fast. Only per-to-peer can match that type of computing horsepower.



"The future of the Internet is in freedom and peer-2-peer sharing."

Yes see more and locally hosted applications. The new SN will come from video games. LAMP is really like writing on stone tables. The future will be much different. Think about the Star Trek movies and the vacation simulators. That is where in hundreds of years things are headed.

"We spend about 0.5mil annually on Dolphin and we already hire enough developers."

That is too much and you have too many projects going on. Scrap Dolphin, hire c++ programmers and build a locally hosted SN application and sell it for $49.95 retail. If not that then have your programmers use this software: http://www.yessoftware.com/index2.php and build an AJAX/peer to peer site. I don't have the time but if I did I would try and build my own open source SN software. Boonex has taken too long and not released a viable product in years. Since Dolphin is free I am grateful, however, I think Boonex has wasted a lot of money without a bug free product to show for it. I still can't even empty the trash on Dolphin 7. How ridiculous is that? Buddypress for Worpress is free and super easy to update although it's slow.

"Webhome.org doesn't store any information at all. Everything is stored on your computer."

That is the future.