[chopin2256]

How can a social networking add-on ever be stand-alone, no matter who makes it? Doesn't it, by definition, require a network to which to link?

I am talking about non reliance of a key. Information exchanges between Zoints and your website. A standalone would be something like Myspace, where it retrieves the data from it's database without relying on others. Zoints isn't exactly like this. It may retrieve data from your local database, but if Zoints ever went bankrupt, or decided to stop their service, your community may stop functioning unless Zoints offers a standalone. In any ideal situation, you want to limit your reliance on others for your success. This is why any serious webmaster would choose this hack over Zoints in a heartbeat.