February 11, 2008 11:11 AM

A Soc Full of Nets

After signing up for CityTrex, Dopplr and GoodReads this weekend (and sprucing up my Upcoming.org page), I have to ask, how many freaking soc nets can one person join before the utility wears off? Despite the clear value in each individual offering, there has to be a limit, right?

Of course, it's a big part of my job to know what's happening out there in social media land, but still. And the thing is, I'm not even close to being on all of the "important" soc nets. I'm not on Pownce, for instance.

Anil Dash is on MySpace, but not he's not active there, nor supportive. Here's the headline he's running on his page:

My_Anil_Dash_Space.jpg

I keep thinking someone's going to create one place where all this functionality and content can co-exist in perpetuity. Facebook is the closest thing we have at the moment, thanks to their open source widgets which allow users to import some of their outside soc net data, like photos from Flickr or bookmarks from del.icio.us.

Posted by david burn

 

 



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I totally agree we need a system to control and collect all of our social network participation, but I have to strongly disagree that it should live on a central service someone else controls, like Facebook.

As you might suspect, I think our work on Action Streams is going to be part of the answer:

http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2008/01/time_for_action.html

Open, decentralized, works with about 75 networks already, and it's free. Seems like a good first step. :)

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