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On 17/07/07, Richard Davey <rich at corephp.co.uk> wrote:
> I think social sites are similar, right now as you said there are a
> mass of them all with slightly different features. But give it a few
> years, the wheat will be sorted from the chaff, and we'll see
> consolidation until perhaps finally we're left with a social network
> site equivalent of Adium. In the meantime we'll collect a mass of
> logins across a mass of sites, or just ignore them altogether :)

It's not just your login that gets proliferated; your network of
friends does too, which is why there's a lot of calls for Portable
Social Networks, using FOAF or XFN to quickly migrate your gang from
one site to another.

See Jeremy Keith's thoughts on the subject here:
http://adactio.com/journal/1212/

Oh, and OpenID is really, really great. I use my Vox account, and the
recent Open Bar feature on Basecamp and Highrise means that you log in
to one, you log into all (I have a work and a personal Basecamp
account and a Highrise account). It's single sign-on without
reinventing the wheel - marvellous :)

Tim