The real value IMO of open social networks is that they create an ecosystem for lots of vendors and web services to participate in. If you're Amazon for example, or indeed any e-commerce vendor, you can create widgets to use in a service like PeopleAggregator - or simply open up your data via APIs so that external developers can create widgets or web apps. [more...]

IMHO the web widgetization is one of the big new things. Everything you develop for the web today should be easy to detach from its environment and reuse somewhere else.

Tags: PeopleAggregator, Richard MacManus, widgetization