As technology advances we are always on the lookout for how we can keep current with what's popular to provide the most integrative and up to date experiences possible. Online social networks have become increasingly popular in the last five years, and as such many sites and organizations are expanding their user base with more and more features. The following is an ongoing look at various technologies and how they can be implemented with the Blog system we are using.
Facebook:
Facebook has launched a program called Facebook Connect. This has been designed so that websites that use networking (registration, forums, etc.) can link their account with their Facebook accounts. Many sites have already implemented this program such as CNET. Facebook is implementable with Blogger, however complex. At this time it would only be implementable if we were using our own domain (as opposed to the Blogger free domain) because it involves hosting custom site files and code.
Twitter:
Twitter is implementable with Blogger. There is a gadget that can connect your blog and Twitter account so that you can view your Tweets on your blog as they update (see FACTS Summer 09). The Twitter gadget seems to increase the page load time so it might not be useful when optimizing for slower computers. Twitter has a 140 character limit so it is unlikely that updating your twitter account from your blog would be beneficial.
Myspace:
Myspace is currently not implementable as a social network beyond their own domain, but they are rolling out a service called MySpaceID at some point this year.
Skype:
Skype is a communication system used by many business' and people for personal use. It has its share of features and limitations that makes it stand out in the digital communication market. There is a gadget to allow Skype-Blogger connectivity called Web Skype, but for the moment is only implementable with Microsoft Internet Explorer and thus may be limited in its use.*
*IE has ~40% of the current market share whereas Firefox is ~47%
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Skype would be the most beneficial of those three, in terms of operator coordination: it allows for multiple ways of communicating with another person (text, audio, video), as well as conferencing, which can prove to be useful, at least for the blog operators: for the readers, not so much. I don't see the benefits of a Skype-Blogger network for a reader. Seeing as Blogger has a "feed" system, where you can subscribe to the blog and receive regular updates, ways for readers to remain updated with their favorite blogs increase tenfold, as feeds can be embedded in almost any website, such as Facebook or Myspace. This is much more useful to spread the word and keep the readers updated, though I may be wrong.
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