he web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn. OpenSocial provides
A lot of new SNS entrants are niche-oriented. Unfortunately, simply being a niche play isn't enough to guarantee success. We can look at these niche social networks as the modern equivalent of the bulletin board community.
Instead of sending your data out to a bunch of social networking sites, Spokeo is more of a central hub where you can keep up with all the posts, pictures and links your friends put up in any of 21 different sites.
But seriously, the concept of "social network fatigue" boggles my mind. I realize that the prediction is really "Users will tire of large-scale, portal-style social network sites like MySpace and Facebook in 2007" but the framing of it as "social network
Many teens are content (if not happy) to start over with most of their accounts in most places. Forgot your IM password? Sign up again. Forgot your email address? Create a new one. Forgot your login? Time for a change.
