Social Operating System

With the recent growth in social networking sites like orkut, you tube, facebook, linkedin, skype etc we can see each bringing forth a unique value like social connectivity in Orkut, video publishing in you tube, voice communication in Skype etc. Though each social site offers a unique service we can see islands of disconnected services what would be great is a seamless integration of these serivces akin a ideal mashup. Though few social sites have started offering data services through which mashing is possible but still we are nowhere close to the ideal mashup. Nova Spivack a pre eminent thinker sheds light on how this trend is taking place also brings forth an idea of Social operating system, here is the link

http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2007/07/the-rise-of-the.html