I've been getting these emails where a friend joins a social network site, and then adds my email to those web sites. I personally have no interest in joining all these various social networks that are cropping up, but I know a lot of my friends have joined these web sites, and well, it just seems foolish to be joining these web sites. There is no tie in with any IM software, email software or anything of the sort. I am not sure what is can be done when one joins these places, but I would think a tie in with IM, and blog software would be quite easy, and should be expected.

Today I heard about Yahoo 360 and from the little I read, I got the above idea. Just tie it in with all the various tools, like blogging software, flickr like service, IM and you have a very rich social environment, which might gain some good users. I would have thought that google would have figured this out by now. They bought orkut.com didn't they. Well, they could probably tie in the users with jabber, and they already have blogger/blogspot and gmail. It just makes sense.

Update: Hmm... Yahoo 360 is actually what my idea was all about. Maybe I should read the whole article before I post.