Unified Status Updates
With all the talk about unified data between the major social networking sites, I’m hoping it goes beyond just sharing friends lists across Facebook, Linkedin, Plaxo, etc. That would be a good start, but I am hoping this movement includes sharing entire profiles, including status updates.
Currently I just update my status on Facebook. Doing so on Linkedin seems redundant, and since Facebook has pretty good mobile access, I haven’t used twitter just yet. Having a centralized status updating service could even be independent of the social networking sites. A user would only have to update his or her status in one place and point the rest of the sites to that place. They would read and re-format an RSS feed of the user’s status.