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Mark Brooks: Yahoo wants to drive more eyeballs and loyalty to it's social networking products. It has considered making online dating free, but has understood the difference in nature between internet dating and social networking. They are different animals and never the twain shall meet. Let's take this single login idea one step further. The central tenet of social networks is to help people maintain contact and communicate with friends…and discover new ones. I'd like to see a desktop app that aces Outlook and helps me connect into my social networks. I think this is a long way off, but this is the killer app.
This might me the future of social networking….An inside story coming from http://www.gabcity.com a new emerging social network is that these guys are preparing some solution to the case where you can check all your profiles listed in several social network such as http://www.myspace.com, http://www.hi5.com, http://www.friendster.com, http://www.facebook.com, and much more, through one single http://www.gabcity.com login; this might be a practical feature that will add value to social networks.
There are several geo-location apps like Plazes and Meetro that are starting to link to social networking sites, this is already being done.
Gab City is YANS, Yet Another social Networking Site.