This is the first piece I have read by Pico and it reminded me of a quote by Gandhi I had noticed on the London Underground "There is more to life than increasing its speed".
Trying to understand the most effective ways in which users online engage with each other, especially with people we don’t know. They could be games, groups /forums or comment threads. Conscious that this is context dependent. Commenters on Scobleizer/Kawasaki Google+ posts are engaging in an online experience which is very different those playing WOW.
You are right, partly. Am more of a DB person with a minimal understanding of scripting languages. Hence the reach-out. About building the next facebook, I would love to.
Am considering Ruby at the moment. But reminded of Twitter dropping Ruby due to certain reliability issues. Hence having second thoughts. Or am I a little ahead of myself here worrying about something that may never affect me?