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By: Helzerman’s Odd Bits » Blog Archive » My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 21st

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:30:48 +0000

[...] Standardizing Your Profile Across Social Websites | White African – A couple top web tech guys from South Africa (Neville, Stii, Charl) have banded together to create what they call a â??Simple Distributed Social Networkâ??, or SDSN. Their concept is simple, create a standardized way for people to own their own profiles, [...]

By: Links/Articles Tagged Between February 15th and February 20th

Links/Articles Tagged Between February 15th and February 20th — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000

[...] Standardizing Your Profile Across Social Websites | White African :: [Tags: social-networking tech ] [...]

By: Place all the eggs in one basket: SDSN : Institute for the Networked Future (INF)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:18:45 +0000

[...] up with a unified account, Simple Distributed Social Network (SDSN). “Their concept is simple,” whiteafrican.com reports, “create a standardized way for people to own their own profiles, so they’re not tied into (and [...]

By: Mwangi - the Displaced African

Mwangi - the Displaced African — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:12:07 +0000

Yet another idea I never would have discovered had I not popped in for a visit. I think that will end up being my signature comment. That and thanks. This will be great especially for people who want to market themselves or their websites across the entire web 2.0 world.

By: Abdurahman

Abdurahman — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:26:10 +0000

The idea is great, and has been around, but the implementation is little tricky. Great post.

By: AFM

AFM — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:32:21 +0000

@Jke – now, plaxo with SyncML would just be perfect. Problem is they sell their plaxo mobile sw, so they would have to forego the $ from that. Try funambol btw, haven’t gotten it to work on my Q yet though.

By: JKE

JKE — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:42:09 +0000

Oh yeah, reminds me of the sxip idea.

I’d be happy if we could have some open standard in use @ e.g. synchronising contact data via plaxo IF these guys will eventually go for SyncML.

By: Ntwiga

Ntwiga — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:41:04 +0000

Standardizing profiles across the social networking scene is just the tip of the iceberg. This is really just about standardizing one's identity across the web - watch this primer on identifying yourself across the interwebs.

By: HASH

HASH — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:38:53 +0000

@Congogirl – I think it’s safe to say that you wouldn’t bother using this type of service when you want to maintain anonymity. So, it’s useful for when you want to control your actual profile, but not anonymous pseudonyms. That’s my take anyway.

By: Congogirl

Congogirl — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:40:57 +0000

I think this is a great idea as one option. However, I do not want my profile standardized across sites because not everyone knows that Congogirl is ___, for example. I do like to use Congogirl as a handle on several sites, but on others, I use a different handle and on some I use my name. However, for those for which I would like to input the same information, a tool such as this would be invaluable.