Linking Facebook to Twitter and other Mashable (dis)content

You may know that we have both a Twitter edition and a Facebook profile....but we saw a new app today that allows you to update Twitter with your Facebook stuff. (see here for example)

This is an interesting development, because - in our view - people will not exist in one SocNet, and just being able to Open ID onto various Closed Worlds is not going to be good enough.

A good start is to be able to export and import data - a good application of course is the ability to export this blog's posts into both Twitter and Facebook - but not all the "web 2" media is so open

For example, we cannot directly bring photos from other Flickr into Facebook (or at least we haven't found a way yet - any advice welcome*) which is frustrating, we don't really want to have multiple copies of photos, we want to be able to link all the vertical use properties we have so that they are navigable by users.

* Addendum - found a way to do this.....just need to hunt around in the user developed apps

But it could be a lot more open.

If you start to think about what SocNet Mashing could be like the possibilities are quite fascinating.

For example, do you know the music I listen to on Pandora (assuming you want to know, that is....)? The books I am reading? The art galleries I have been to, the restaurants I like, which classic car I own, where I am etc.

(OK, easy on the "where I am" - clearly one wants some form of control on who can view what)

This data all exists (along with different social nets of friends) in all those social nets I belong to, and I really don't want to reproduce that data multiple times....we need to get it out - but not just aggregated into Yet Another Social Net - the ideal would be to have a Federated Soc Net structure, (our expanded Federated Identity) where the "bits of me" are fairly easy to link.

This was what "Web 2.0" was partly about, but it seems that the data is still in silos. Big picture though, I think this art-toon by Lynette Webb says it all: