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I think the next hot social networking site is your own website. I've been improving my blog with stuff like Twitter/Jaiku widgets, OpenID, Gravatar, photo alb

by pkaler 19y ago

I think the next hot social networking site is your own website. I've been improving my blog with stuff like Twitter/Jaiku widgets, OpenID, Gravatar, photo albums, etc. I can push my presence out using RSS. Piece by piece I'm adding all of the useful features of Facebook. I can own all of my own data and control all of my own privacy. I use the Wordbook plugin for Wordpress to bridge to my Facebook profile.

jraines 19y ago
I agree! I actually stayed up all night the other night doing that. I registered www.jeremyraines.com and it just uses ruby's xml and rss parsing libraries to scrape certain pictures from my flickr account, certain kinds of posts from my tumblr, and it has my friendfeed widget on it. I had more fun building it than I've ever had on facebook -- I learned some stuff about XPath, Ruby, CSS and regular expressions.