Zoomshare Profiles Update
Expanding on the
Friends Lists feature we recently
rolled out
Profiles in which users can
provide and share interest, contact information and
friends list within the zoomshare community. This
week we
updated Profiles to allow for
sharing of the information externally, as a page
within one's zoomshare site.
Nothing too fancy I agree, online services going
way back have allow users in one form or another to
create and share identities and avatars. There's
even a
little bit of history surrounding
the concept and terms.
The twist in today's computing world is that of
social networks and sharing. In the social
networking scene,
MySpace or
Facebook for example,
your avatar is your one and only web page within
that community. In other communities your network
is how you share your content and interest,
Zoomshare, YouTube or
Flickr for example.
But how does one manage, connect or disconnect
different profiles and networks between different
communities? This is where
Widgets come into play.
In Facebook for example on can use a Facebook app
to share Flickr photos within Facebook.
In a
past blog posts I've mention how
this can work to one's advantage, a user can choose
to use the community/web service/toolset(s) of
their preference, without any roadblocks to sharing
or managing their identifies and networks.
But all online communities are not created equal
and the
APIs that web developers use to
connect and
interact with different systems don't always play
nice. Zoomshare Widgets, for example, don't work on
MySpace.
Its an interesting coincidence that this week's
Zoomshare Profiles updates and continued evolution
comes at the same time as Google's expected
announcement of the
OpenSocial API.
There are a number of different
blog postings about
the possible effects this new API will have on the
web in general, and services such as Facebook or
even Zoomshare. While I won't venture a guess just
yet as to where we or OpenSocial will go. I think
its an interesting concept that we all should keep
an eye on, developers and users alike.
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