The Race To Social Network 2.0

The Inquisitr » Tech: October 2009: Matthew logs onto his social aggregation service. In front of him appears everything his friends have been doing across every different social networking service. He decides that he needs to write a few blog posts, upload some photos, and comment on a few threads. He clicks on the menu in his aggregation service and off he goes, uploading photos to MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, Picasa Web Albums, .Mac and Bebo all from the one screen. Then there’s that party he wants to invite people to: he sets up an event and adds the friends he wants to invite. Details of the party and invites are posted on evite, Socializr and Facebook, with RSVPs from all being tracked by the aggregator.
Does this sound like any service available today? It doesn’t, and yet this is the social network of tomorrow, social network 2.0.
There’s been a lot of talk around FriendFeed being the next Google, and yet it’s not quite there yet. FriendFeed aggregates the data in, but so far the only place you can post out of FriendFeed is Twitter. FriendFeed is however continually evolving and will change in time. The guys running FriendFeed are smart (and ex-Googlers as well) so they will already know that social network 2.0 is the end game. The bigger question though is can they get there in time?

Google is still the 1000 pound gorilla
The only company that has come close to meeting the description above is Google with the yet unlaunched Socialstream. The video below shows how one central network can be used as the hub for external services, perhaps not perfectly, but the content generation outwards is there. Google’s Friend Connect and Open Social is all about laying a common data foundation for a service like Socialstream. Google…

The Race To Social Network 2.0

The Inquisitr » Tech: October 2009: Matthew logs onto his social aggregation service. In front of him appears everything his friends have been doing across every different social networking service. He decides that he needs to write a few blog posts, upload some photos, and comment on a few threads. He clicks on the menu in his aggregation service and off he goes, uploading photos to MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, Picasa Web Albums, .Mac and Bebo all from the one screen. Then there’s that party he wants to invite people to: he sets up an event and adds the friends he wants to invite. Details of the party and invites are posted on evite, Socializr and Facebook, with RSVPs from all being tracked by the aggregator.
Does this sound like any service available today? It doesn’t, and yet this is the social network of tomorrow, social network 2.0.
There’s been a lot of talk around FriendFeed being the next Google, and yet it’s not quite there yet. FriendFeed aggregates the data in, but so far the only place you can post out of FriendFeed is Twitter. FriendFeed is however continually evolving and will change in time. The guys running FriendFeed are smart (and ex-Googlers as well) so they will already know that social network 2.0 is the end game. The bigger question though is can they get there in time?

Google is still the 1000 pound gorilla
The only company that has come close to meeting the description above is Google with the yet unlaunched Socialstream. The video below shows how one central network can be used as the hub for external services, perhaps not perfectly, but the content generation outwards is there. Google’s Friend Connect and Open Social is all about laying a common data foundation for a service like Socialstream. Google…