I doubt the appeal of open standards to a larger web audience - the standards like OpenID or APML only matter to the most tech-savvy users. But if the quality of the service that can be hosted on websites is good enough and many webmasters choose to implement it on their niche sites, it may be a huge hit with rapidly increasing user base and number of bookmarks.
- Svetlana Gladkova
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