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Twitter founder Evan Williams says Twitter is open enough to be interoperable with decentralized social networks built by other people, but that none have overcome the trade-off in user experience innovation that comes with decentralization.

Williams spoke to The Economist in a 12 minute video interview posted last night, about his transition from CEO to the head of product development. The part of the interview of most interest to me was the last question asked: is Williams concerned about someone around the world reproducing Twitter as a set of standards and protocols? Check out his answer below, and diso nerds - please dissect as appropriate.

Firefox gets distributed social networking and identity management.

The good people who work on the revolutionary, open-sourced, and occasionally maligned browser have been hard at work on making cross-site navigation and portable IDs a solvable problem. A discrete button to the left of the URL that can tell users whether or not they are logged in to a particular site and allow them to log in without further navigation? Accuse us of punning, but definitely sign us up. Google Chrome: Start taking notes.