I knew it was only a matter of time before somebody tries to make a "shell" that allows one at least semi-functionality across several different social networking/blogging sites.
It'll be successful as long as they can get a decent operating ability [can post as well as read "updates"], with out quickly being blocked by the sites themselves. Once the servers are kept away from the social networking sites, they must continually get new blocks of IP addresses to leach out the content, which really isn't all that hard.
(There's no magical javascript that will let the user's browser load what part of those site that you want. Normally the server goes in on the back end and acts like a proxy, spitting out content to a different interface. I always thought this approach wouldn't work for long without the social networking sites eventually blocking the servers, but then again, look at how meebo did it with all the messaging clients, and didn't get blocked.)
This is based off of the idea that many people will be members of several social networking sites at once. This notion of "facebook will have more users than myspace" doesn't mean that the users are completely different people. The majority of the users will be on both. I myself have a facebook and a myspace. Most of my friends just stay on myspace, so I find myself logging into both sites all the time.
It'll be successful as long as they can get a decent operating ability [can post as well as read "updates"], with out quickly being blocked by the sites themselves. Once the servers are kept away from the social networking sites, they must continually get new blocks of IP addresses to leach out the content, which really isn't all that hard.
(There's no magical javascript that will let the user's browser load what part of those site that you want. Normally the server goes in on the back end and acts like a proxy, spitting out content to a different interface. I always thought this approach wouldn't work for long without the social networking sites eventually blocking the servers, but then again, look at how meebo did it with all the messaging clients, and didn't get blocked.)
This is based off of the idea that many people will be members of several social networking sites at once. This notion of "facebook will have more users than myspace" doesn't mean that the users are completely different people. The majority of the users will be on both. I myself have a facebook and a myspace. Most of my friends just stay on myspace, so I find myself logging into both sites all the time.
I bet this will work. :)