DISQUS

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