An interesting paper about social networks
The guy who created Live Journal (Brad Fitzpatrick) has a manifesto of sorts regarding what needs to happen next in the world of social networking. He is certainly not the first to identify the problem:
“If I had to declare the problem statement succinctly, it’d be: People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site., but also: Developing “Social Applications” is too much work.” (from Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph)
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August 20th, 2007 at 6:37 am
A meta layer for personal infos is needed for social networks. Like CoComment is offering a central space for comments and follow up comments.
If that meta layer should be sitting on your local machine or on a server or both depends on the level of privacy. But a personal social networks ID which can be the central hub for all those infos and activities would be very helpful.