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Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network?

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jan 13, 2009

Summary

Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard.

So far it's just a vision, albeit a pretty specific one, but we expect to see something like this on the market very soon. Is it what you want? Now is a good time to share your thoughts on the subject.

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"Distributed Social Networking" (DiSO) is what a growing number of people are calling the move to aggregate and integrate our activities, data and social connections built up on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter and our personal blogs. (See also the DiSO Project.) Much of the conversation concerns technical standards to make it possible, but once it's technically doable - how should it look for users? Canter offers the following proposal and we think it's a good one.

Marc Canter believes that the "dashboard" is the best metaphor to manage all this activity through. Millions of people are already familiar with this basic idea, having used My.Yaho

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Comments (22)

Solacetech,

Jan 14, 2009

looks like a studio mixing board to me. I don't think I want more hardware....

Daynamarcum,

Jan 14, 2009

hmm, I think we have an iphone for this. all but video....

Ukstevieb,

Jan 14, 2009

@solacetech The picture at the beginning of the Blog post is not of the Dashboard, just a picture that the Blog's author felt conveyed the right idea behind the application. I think he Dashboard would be more of a TweetDeck for all your social sites.

Solacetech,

Jan 14, 2009

@ukstevieb Thanx! I'm an early adopter and all...lol...but that's because it's free. To buy new hardware to be more social would be a huge Fail :)

Jasongoldberg,

Jan 14, 2009

Or, is this just Facebook? @solacetech @daynamarcum @ukstevieb

Solacetech,

Jan 14, 2009

@jasongoldberg good point. Facebook is so layered, you can put whipped cream and a cherry on it. At this point who's going to do more than what Facebook is trying to socially do?

Coldacid,

Jan 14, 2009

DO WANT. This furthers my vision of the distributed social network, although I'd rather have it as software than as a service. (A dashboard service is still more a portal than a personal tool.)

Ukstevieb,

Jan 14, 2009

@jasongoldberg Ye Gods, I hope not! As a by-the-way, my SocialMedian T-Shirt arrived today, cheers :-D

Sanjaykhedar,

Jan 15, 2009

ye..it seems like a vast ocean like array of social networking.but i think some complexity removal will be ultimate for all users....bye

Chrisfoxinc,

Jan 15, 2009

I think that what we want is greater interoperability between services, not one superservice. Everyone uses social networking tools differently, so I think it would be a fool's errand to try to develop one dashboard that ties everything together and serves everyone's needs. That being said, if they developed this tool, I'd be happy to consider it in amongst the tools I already use and see if it found a place.

Tjclancy,

Jan 15, 2009

Ok. Who hasn't had this idea. This seems nice and all, but I think that a less intrusive idea would simply be to have a universal profile for each person. How many times do we sign up for a social network only to have to type in (or cut and paste) the same information from some other place.

Digimist,

Jan 15, 2009

I'm with you #Tjclancy one profile to rule them all :)

T Visio,

Jan 15, 2009

Lemme get this straight...I have to pay for the privilege of free search and linking to a gazillion marketers pretending to create fresh niche content? whatever...If the Dashboard comes with a Social Capital Economic Stimulus Package sign me up. I'll take 5!

Comp Taught,

Jan 15, 2009

I'm new to all of social media but, already I feel this a much needed proposal!

Emmravalimanana,

Jan 16, 2009

Excellent as proposal because it always great having one strong system which manage different applications. It could be great if there are some attractives games too! It most important taking some pause to relax on games!

Gridsix,

Jan 16, 2009

we definitely need one; i can't keep track of them all...

Manujarch,

Jan 16, 2009

Guess we need a monitor 2560x1600

Tonemega,

Jan 16, 2009

I have a solution already for keeping track and managing all of my social networks, its simple.
Delete accounts on dormant/unused (not as popular as we thought they would be when we joined) social networks and jump on the bandwagon of whatever SN platform will be around over the next 10 years.
That way, we'll have a much easier time of keeping track of our social media.
So to conclude, if your not on facebook, linkedin, twitter, flickr youtube or socialmedian :) already, join now while they are still in business, let the others fade.
Webb apps and SNs come and go. Minimize people, minimize.

Victorseo,

Jan 17, 2009

Built in Adobe Air, I presume. Could be very cool. but the comments on having a universal profile are significant(Open ID not withstanding). Can you DiSo it with a share feature and a public and private list? This could fill that bill, as well. It is probably closer than you think and it will probably work very well for a project I am working on...