Social-networking-aggregators-Focus applications for 2008

More and more new in social networking these days.
Its time to aggregate all your social networks (Facebook,LinkedIN,Myspace,Flickrand more) into a single social networking aggregation sites.Called by most people as Meebo of social networks,these sites are a center of attraction for development and usage both.
These sites will be more and more developed in 2008 as seen by the present trends of
scattered social networks.More and more startups will be developing more social aggregators.

Presently some startups are focusing on identity consolidation, others on messaging consolidation and on tracking friends. Some like Profilefly offer consolidation of multiple things like Profiles, Contacts and Bookmarks.

These startups will be different from openid system of maintaining one profile for all logins at different sites and peopleaggregator which is an API platform to develop our own social networks and do-it-yourself social networking system.Its source code can be downloaded form their site.

Rather than relying on a single community for socializing, individuals often actively seek out a variety of appropriate people and resources for different situations.Recent research data from Compete.com confirms that people are tending to have multiple Social Network Memberships. E.g. 20% of MySpace members are also Facebook Members.

This concept of social aggregators can be understood by this analogy,You might be an amateur photographer sharing tips and getting advice about wide angle lenses on Flickr but for your job related networking/mobility you would depend on LinkedIn. If some of your good friends from high school are on MySpace while the grad school folks went to Facebook you now have 4 Social Networks to Manage! Thats why my predication that tools for helping users manage their memberships across Social Networks will emerge focus apps for 2008.

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