DISQUS

Mathew's comments: One social network to rule them all?

  • Zack Perry · 2 years ago
    Doesn't NetVibes do a good job of aggregating content from multiple APIs?
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    It does, Zack -- but it doesn't yet have the kinds of social features that it sounds like SocialSystem is working on, where you can create relationships around the content from different places.
  • Nav · 2 years ago
    Well, this would certainly end the walled-garden phenomenon that is causing everyone to call Facebook the next AOL.

    I think I just like the idea of aggregation - in the same way that Jaiku consolidates all one's own RSS feeds (blog, Flickr, last.fm etc.), a meta-social network could be equally as useful. If the ostensible point of social networks is to allow people to connect, then this seems brilliant to me.
  • Dennis D. McDonald · 2 years ago
    Matthew - By coincidence I had a similar thought when I started to think about the deal Elsevier and Google Scholar are doing; the Elsevier data could provide a powerful networking infrastructure given the importance of citation behavior in scholarly publishing.
    - Dennis