Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/11/08 16:32

John Dunlop wrote:

> Is there a website that consolidates the vast array of social networking
> websites? The website would, I imagine, automatically create accounts
> for you on a number of social networking sites and provide you with a
> single interface.

Not that I'm aware of, but I know that many of them are heavily using
microformats <http://microformats.org> to make the information on them
more "scrapable", and I believe that some allow you to import data from a
suitably microformatted page.

Thus the rudiments of syncing are there.

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