So I read with interest as Liz Gannes (that’s Stu’s daughter for those of us in the know) writes about Social Network taxonomy. Liz bravely tries to make sense of all the different categories and types of social networks and even falls over into the meta-white-label world where we reside.

But she misses the big payoff at the end - so I had to inform her of OpenID - which I GOTTA believe she knows about!   Not suyre why she missed that - I guess all writers want to create articles with titles that have the word ‘taxonomy’ in them.

In the 15 other comments left at this post, one was left from soneone named Richard Donaldson of Uniter Layer - plugging his client Affinity Circles.

So I had to leave this comment:

Hmmm well maybe we SHOULDN’T bring our business to United Layer since Richard is plugging our competition.

I’m not sure if its Liz or Richard who got us wrong - but the PeopleAggregator is definitely a platform play - not a specific niche vertical market. I guess Liz just kind of left ‘white-label’ platforms out of the taxonomy as we’re meta - we can do whatever our clients wish to do.

I’m sorry that Liz didn’t bring up scale and scope - as I think you’ll find that the target NUMBER of people heavily effects the success ratio and odds in this world.

If you aim LOW enough - even new horizontal blank slates - like fatvine and customerforce - have a chance if they keep their initial investment low and overhead down.

And as for a “form of integration between the proliferating places to maintain your digital identity” - HELLO Liz - ever heard of OpenID?

How ’bout FOAF or XFN?

Its all staring us in the face.

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