I don't think John-Marc meant anything by it, English is his second language after all. He is often confused. After I read it a couple of time, it sounds to me like he is just asking what you designed around all of this social networking stuff.

I find your many of your posts useful and I'm looking forward to investigating the ping.fm thing. Speaking of the social network thing, check out the new forums You can connect your facebook and twitter accounts right here and go to town.