Well, in a way, it’s almost like the web itself is the killer app. It’s not any individual app, it’s that you have all these different websites that are now networked together. They’re all part of this one web, and they can read each other’s data, they can publish data that the other ones can read…

Something that I kind of like to say jokingly is that the DWeb is the RSS killer. The reason I think that actually touches on something is that RSS basically turned blogs into a decentralized social network. It was a way to aggregate together all these different blog posts, all of them published independently, all in their own domains, and you could aggregate them together into a reader. That was the right track; that’s how you get decentralized social networking. But RSS just had a little bit of trouble accomplishing what it wanted to, and I think it took a little bit too much coordination to get going. The readers didn’t have the same kind of features that the services were putting out, like the ability to see who was following who, and the ability to like things, and reply, and all that kind of stuff… So RSS just didn’t really survive, and then of course, Google really killed it whenever they killed their Reader.

But in a way, what RSS made possible is really easy to do now on the DWeb, because you make your personal site – let’s just say you have a blog on the DWeb; you’re publishing the files, probably actually as JSON, right? You’re pushing all these JSON posts that are like a micro blog post, and then other people can publish their posts as JSON that cross-link… We have a Twitter Fritter that does it exactly like this, and it’s got Likes, and it’s got Reply threads and everything like that, and the way it works is that there’s not – it doesn’t take as much coordination as RSS, because we just know what the JSON formats are, what the schemas are… You crawl around to all the sites that you’re following; you just go to their site and you pull down their files that are relevant, and you index them, and there you have it; you have this little social network. So the coordination required is way less than what RSS required, and you’re getting better results.