Glance Nation
Glance Nation is sprouting due to app fatigue or oh my god I belong to 20+ social media type sites how can I consolidate all of my "doings" into one feed for all to see, and for me to see from others. The social networking scene has evolved from a handful of staple places to go and be to a few dozen places to go, be, create, remix, infuse, learn, revive, holler, shout, scream, hang and so on. Its a minefield out there.
Glance Nation is the calling to bring all of that together. I want to get it all, all the status of my being in a glance, in one stable sexy feed.
First real player on the scene that I noticed was a simple site called FriendFeed and it does the basic idea very well in one nice consolidating output. Soon it added bit levels of control, viewing options, and comments which sorta propelled it into a social network in itself.
Today I saw Six Apart adding "activity streams" into its platform of tools and networks. It's the same basic idea as FriendFeed though with Six Apart sauce no doubt.
Where to next? Well this basic idea is following along side of what folks in the Data Portability thing are doing. Open ID is another subset idea thats part of this overall concept too. All roads lead to figuring out how to manage all the crap we do, that's the basic idea.
I have 10+ login id's, a dozen or so passwords, a few hundred friends in that network, a few hundred in that one, a bunch of media over here, there and that other plac. Then I wanna tell people a story about me, my right now, my just happened, my moments ago. I wanna tell you about the books I like, songs I dig, fashion stuff that I'm wearin and more. But I want to do it in a way that makes sense. I don't want to burden you with having to go everywhere I exist, here, glance at my existance in 3 mins. If you wanna drill down, drill, if not, sok. And the same goes for you, show me your feed, and maybe I'll drill down on you.
That is the next wave of social media, which means that in about 12-38 months it'll infect big business, and soon your online banking, insurance, or company intranet site will wanna give you glancable features too.
Tags: friendfeed, sixapart, glancenation
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