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Re: One social network to rule them all?

Dennis D. McDonald — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:12:11 -0000

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

Re: One social network to rule them all?

Nav — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:28:45 -0000

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.

Re: One social network to rule them all?

Mathew — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:49:53 -0000

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.

Re: One social network to rule them all?

Zack Perry — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:18:29 -0000

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