social networking
Could Spotplex dethrone Digg as the King of social news?
TechCrunch has an article called "Is SpotPlex a Better Digg?" that ran today. While this seems a lot link link bait, there may be relevance to this statement. Digg, for all intents are purposes is a popularity content. SpotPlex, on the other hand, more accurately represents how much traffic an article is getting: Regardless of if the subject matter is popular. Both have pros and cons. Let's examine that.
Social Networking APIs mean opportunity for a better user experience
The trend moving forward is that social networking sites are moving towards opening up their systems to third party developers. Facebook, initially aimed at college students, is currently leading the pack by a long shot. This will provide countless opportunities for entrepreneurs to solve a variety of the social web's existing problems: Non-centralized authentication, and excessive data duplication.
