{"id":1795,"date":"2007-07-11T17:25:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/socialstream-and-the-unified-social-network\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:51:39","slug":"socialstream-and-the-unified-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/socialstream-and-the-unified-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialstream and the &#8216;Unified Social Network&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Socialstream logo\" id=\"image1808\" title=\"Socialstream logo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/socialstream-logo-1.png\" \/>The initial task facing the students working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu\/M-HCI\/2006\/SocialstreamProject\/index.php\">Socialstream<\/a> couldn&#8217;t have been clearer: &#8220;Rethink and reinvent online social networking&#8221;. And now it looks like they might have laid the foundation for Google&#8217;s next big thing: a social network to unite all social networks.The Carnegie Mellon University research team were sponsored by Google to investigate the development of social networks and to eventually create Socialstream, a system where<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Users can seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks&#8230; The goal of Socialstream is to present social information in a way that ties it to the person who posted the information, and not the site from which it came.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea of a genuinely unified social network is something of a holy grail among the big names on the web. Yahoo is already testing what looks like an equivalent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/07\/08\/mosh-yahoos-new-social-network-initiative\/\">Mosh<\/a> &#8211; but details of this project are thin on the ground and confusingly, Nokia have a<a href=\"http:\/\/mosh.nokia.com\/\"> similarly named operation<\/a> under way. Are they the same Mosh?<\/p>\n<p>Some commentators are pointing out that it&#8217;s difficult for big companies to start their own social networks from the ground up. From what I can see of Socialstream, that&#8217;s not what Google are trying to do at all. A single site where I can view and control my Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn, last.fm profiles is something I could use. But the merest hint of crippled usability &#8211; in other words, if I still had to actually visit Facebook &#8211; that would put me off. It remains to be seen just whether Google can get away with &#8216;piggybacking&#8217; on top of the exisiting networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial task facing the students working on Socialstream couldn&#8217;t have been clearer: &#8220;Rethink and reinvent online social networking&#8221;. And now it looks like they might have laid the foundation for Google&#8217;s next big thing: a social network to unite all social networks.The Carnegie Mellon University research team were sponsored by Google to investigate the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/socialstream-and-the-unified-social-network\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Socialstream and the &#8216;Unified Social Network&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337440,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/337440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}