Friendster befriends blogs--and fees Two Web trends converge as
the social networking site prepares to launch blogs through
partnership with Six Apart.
We are finally beginning to understand that
Social Networking (YASN - Yet Another Social Network), Blogs,
Wikis, and more.. go hand in hand. There are profound implications
here for vendors in the Blog and Wiki hosting business, the same
applies toend users who increasingly own a myriad of
disparately hosted Blogs/Wikis/Social Networking Zones etc.
Does this look at all familiar? By this I mean
the imminentintegration challenges and issues relating to
vendor lock-in etc.. Our
Virtuoso technology evangelist
Tom Bradford wrote an
insightful post about these issuesa few weeks ago.
I also know that we have been working on
resolving these issues since 2003 (as part of the Virtuoso
Blog/Wiki/YASN Platform effort), andlike our initial Virtual
Databasework (making disparate SQL/XML databases appear as
one), expect to see single solution that brings Blogs/Wikis/YASNs
together also.