Blogs and geeks are buzzing (now you understand the picture above) about the release of FriendFeed’s web server code, named “Tornado“.

Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google’s webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.

Two of FriendFeed’s team members have moved their blogs to this new server technology.

The fact that anyone can download this piece of software opens the possibility that anyone can create the next FriendFeed, or maybe, if one stretches its developer’s mind, make it serve a thousand servers, talking to each other, finally giving way to the ever evading concept of Distributed Social Networking.

Of course, it’s not that simple.

Yesterday, Andy Oram posted a provocative piece on the O’Reilly Radar titled “RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized“. In the piece, he writes:

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