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Social Networking Sites

February 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized

The Social Networking space has continued to grow at an astonishing rate over the last few years.  It all started with a few sites such as MySpace and Facebook, but now there are more than a dozen social networking sites.  People that participate in such sites do not have a single profile on a single site, but instead have to work on maintaining multiple profiles on multiple sites.  At what point will people say there are too many social networking sites out there and decide to choose and stick with one?  Will there ever be a Social Networking Aggregator developed to automatically migrate data from one site to another?  Personally with all of the public Social Networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Windows Live Spaces,  I find myself overloaded with information with people revealing too much personal information through these channels.

  1. 5 Responses to “Social Networking Sites”

  2. By Chris Miller on Feb 29, 2008

    There are plenty of aggregation sites out there, but your focus is on DataPOrtability.org (I am pat of). Where one place exists for your data and you can then move it around or have it accessed. But for now, visit one of many social aggregators.

  3. By Adam Gartenberg on Feb 29, 2008

    Coincidentally, here’s a timely post over at TechCrunch: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/243248042/

  4. By Lior Sion on Feb 29, 2008

    There are actually some effort being done on that direction out there, some is standard based - from which some is well known and working (OpenId, GRavatar, etc.) and some is relatively new and it’s still not sure where it would end (DataPortability). There are also companies looking for a solution for that, I can’t believe it would come to the open net from a commercial solution though. The enterprise (and the question how it fits inside..) is another story. Got ideas?

    Lior

  5. By Andy Yiu on Feb 29, 2008

    Thank for this feedback. I’ll definitely take a look at some of these sites all of you have referenced. There is definitely work that needs to be done to address intranet content.

  6. By Anniejg on Mar 24, 2008

    i am gonna show this to my friend, brother

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