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  Santosh

  1 year ago

  I think Facebook and many other Top Social Network will see slow movement of members. During that final quarter of 2008/early 2009, we will see rise of niche social network and members of Facebook/MySpace will use OpenID to represent at multiple networks.
  With this trend, the supremacy of one Social Network will see downward slope.
  
  We can apply the classic pattern of society into social network, for instance when there is a new land discovery, there is mass immigration towards it, then we settle down ...slowly we discover we belong to small community or move to another green pasture. I think the same pattern is already seen behind the reason why Bebo gaining more member and Facebook loosing it.
  I also think with OpenSocial initiative and many similar initiative, it will make easier for user to represent themselves by OpenID. I foresee OpenId enabling user to manage their own social contacts, privacy, messages, apps, etc.
  That's my 2 cents.
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  Roger Kondrat

  1 year ago

  I know what you mean, I think OpenID is the key for users to get back the power we lost with Social Networks over our identity and also OpenID has the potential to make for much better tools by the service providers such as Facebook (social network) or WebJam (community network).
  
  With OpenID it allows multiple usernames and 'mini-ids' but with one cohesive confirmed identity that ties them all together allowing for 'Dashboard' style management of ones services, and privacy levels.
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  Tugrul

  10 months ago

  Great job, good point! I am, too, tired of receiving lots of e-mails from those useless facebook applications. Its popularity falls I believe... and a question: why are you offline all the time? miss you!
  Love,
  Tugrul
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