Does anyone who’s a member actually visit Orkut?
I know I haven’t logged into my account in over a few months.
I wonder what if anything they will do to combat MySpace.
Anyone want an Orkut invite? (You can’t even give them away)
It would be nice if these ’social networking’ sites had some kind of connective API or distributed search to tie them all together. It’s a pain to keep in touch with so many different sites, and update all the info. It would be nice if all of this crap was kept in a FOAF file, and at each of these sites, you just plug in the location of your FOAF file, and it stores a copy, and checks back for updates.
Livejournal uses a FOAF like page(user info), which is cool, because in the setting you can direct it to another URL somewhere else. Blogger has a FOAF page for your user info too. If we all had our FOAF’s somehwere, and there was a service that linked them for searching, indexing, browsing, that would be awesome.
Social networking sites need to utilize open technologies, and not lock-in users to their one sided information set.
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