Cognition

There’s nothing like twitter to bring home the reality that, at least when it comes to news, traditional search engines are horribly obsolete. Having heard about this from @Scobleizer, I immediately checked google.com, news.google.com, even the myspace homepage. Nothing.

Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle.MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative.

Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)

Ironically, this may be the boost that OpenID (or some better system) needs – as per my previous post on Identitu.de, a cross-site API for developers immediately raises the ugly questions of duplicate accounts, and the merging and splitting required.

Hopefully there’s a better way than what I’ve been doing on the Facebook Platform – silently creating a new BountyUp user to match the Facebook user ID.

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