I still think Ripples is awesome and needed more than ever in a interest based system. How else are you going to follow the entire chain?
Here's a link to the Tau post by Danielle
[and ugh, the metadata for sharing on those pages is awful...]
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=z12qtdmgdtmaj5oy304cjzjwttehc3bb4z40k
#googplus