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Opening Up Social Networks

Scott Gilbertson says it is time to open up the social networks. Which he suggests by means of open platforms that can enable you to take your data with you. I think it should be more than that, not only an open platform, there should be an open protocol so that you can befriend Joe from another social network. It is not only about content, it is about freedom, social networks should be more like email. Most of the social networking fatigue is not because of number of friends, it is because of the number of social networks you need to participate in.

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  1. Brad said:
    August 7th, 2007 at 5:03 am

    I couldn’t agree more. I don’t use any social network regularly cause I only know a few people on each. There needs to be a way to consolidate and use these things together. Kinda like what Adium or Trillian does for IM there should be something for social networking sites.

  2. Abhijit Nadgouda said:
    August 7th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Yes, Trillian, Adium and Kopete help. But we would not need them if we could chat with someone on MSN using GTalk directly. Jabber is a step in that direction, but nothing will move until it is adopted by multiple providers.

  3. Emon said:
    August 9th, 2007 at 7:56 pm

    I’m not a tech person at all but what if I could create one simple badge with all my information so when I visit sites with my, let’s say, Gmail login ID, it imports a temporary profile to that site - if I don’t want to sign up with that particular site.

    Since we all use one mail email account most of the time, it makes sense to create a detailed profile once and never have to fill out forms anywhere. I guess Google is trying to do the same with our gmail accounts. I mean, most of the social networking sites can import address books from the majors, so why can’t they import temporary profile info using my gmail login ID? Am I making sense?

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    August 15th, 2007 at 7:41 am

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