"Celebrity" programmer Dave Winer has christened 2007 "the year of social networking", despite explaining how much he hates the often marketing-abused "year of" concept.
He makes two observations on the "fertile" social networking market, firstly that there are many different types of networking and types of user. Twitter, for example, is a bare-bones social network that has been misrepresented by journalists that don't use it.
"Before they've become users, they probably write about the home page at Twitter, where complete strangers report on the kind of spaghetti sauce they like. That may be why so many articles dismiss Twitter as useless."
Secondly he says that much more work needs to be done in integrating networks, explaining how he wanted to follow up on a film a friend mentioned ion Twitter. He looked it up on the New York Times review site, but would really have liked that to also link through to NetFlix to order and to his friend's other film choices - through Flickster, perhaps.
"How to integrate the systems is known technology, but it's not a solved problem economically and politically. We need to get clear on the opportunities, and feel free to dream when the barriers between the networks come down."
Source: Scripting News
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