Six Apart Reveals the Laws of Motion

Six Apart, the company behind the popular Movable Type blogging platform recently posted the "laws" of this application. Those are:

- The biggest online social network is the Internet itself.

- Today's mainstream social networks are like yesterday's mainstream media.

- Reveal the community you already have.

- Your social network belongs under your control.

- Your community should start with half a billion members.

- The web is in Motion.

"We believe that the right strategy for connecting your blog or site to the world of social networking is not to select one particular social network to hold all the cards, but to connect to all of the powerful and vibrant social networks across the web," says Six Apart Chief Evangelist Anil Dash.

I think the first of Six Apart's laws sums it pretty nicely. The Internet is the biggest social network, and we're just seeing more companies allow the connection between big parts of it, so it all becomes inevitably more connected altogether. It's going to be an interesting year for this kind of concept.