A recent email conversation I had with colleagues at Morpheus Media started off with Google Places, but evolved into a talk about standardization. Lately, there’s been a new network, protocol, standard or service cropping up what every week on the internet. Whether or not this increased diversity is good or bad for innovation is the subject of much debate – are all these new products out there just confusing and complicating matters, thereby killing our potential to funnel our energy into creative and productive endeavors? Tr are they offering us more options to create, breeding more and better works than what would have been created in a more limited environment?
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