[Sigia-l] Google to take social networking to a new level

[Frank Shepard]

News on the social networking front, relevant to several recent
conversations on the list:

"Google to take social networking to a new level"
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=743

"On November 5 we'll likely see third party iGoogle gadgets that
leverage Orkut's social graph information - the most basic
implementation of what Google is planning. From there we may see a lot
more - such as the ability to pull Orkut data outside of Google and
into third party applications via the APIs. And Google is also
considering allowing third parties to join the party at the other end
of the platform - meaning other social networks (think Bebo,
Friendster, Twitter, Digg and thousands of others) to give access to
their user data to developers through those same APIs."

Frank