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One social network to rule them all?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

From Ionut Alex Chitu at Google Operating System comes news of a project from Carnegie Mellon University — sponsored by a large search engine whose name begins with a G and ends in “oogle” — to create a kind of social network called SocialStream. Altho ... Continue reading »

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  • Zack Perry

    2 years ago

    Doesn't NetVibes do a good job of aggregating content from multiple APIs?
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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