Dashboards and Distributed Friending

I’m imagining a world where each of us, and all groups, networks, enterprises, institutions, agencies and NGOs, have dashboards which are associated with our online presence. Some of these dashboards exist today in the guise of “NetVibes” start-up pages or as iGoogle and MyYahoo pages.

Facebook, MySpace and all social-networking software are another kind of dashboard. And all social media services–from Twitter, Friendfeed, and Flickr to dopplr, Blurb or NetFlix (NFLX)–they’re all dashboards, each with its own nuance, subtlety and approach.

Anytime you see “About” or “Your Account,” that’s your dashboard. So each account you have, everywhere, is another dashboard.

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