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Web Titans Locked In a Fight for Your Identity
By Daniel J. Pritchett on September 11, 2008
A constellation of online identities
If your online life is anything like mine, you’ve got accounts with eleventy different online communities. We’ve got our FriendFeeds, our LiveJournals, our Facebooks, and our IM screen names. Each of these identities fragments your attention and your presence on the web. Some companies choose to openly share their [read more...]
Posted in Sharing at Work | Tagged facebook, friendfeed, identity, ning, On the Web, Online Communities, openid, opensocial, profiles, Social network, Virtual community, WidgetLaboratory, widgets, yahoo
Ning Asserts Itself – Will Users Suffer?
By Daniel J. Pritchett on August 24, 2008
Tech news tracker TechCrunch is tracking an important developing story on social networking platform Ning (think standalone Facebook groups) and their ongoing troubles with their most popular developer of paid applications. Third-party Ning widget developer WidgetLaboratory has just open-sourced all of their widgets, effectively giving them away for any determined user to add to [read more...]
Posted in Sharing at Work | Tagged community, facebook, Jason Kincaid, ning, Online Communities, social media, Social network, Social network service, web 2.0, WidgetLaboratory, widgets

