What is Social Omnipresence?

Social Omnipresence is term coined for a platform or service neutral roaming network in Social networking world.

Just imagine you take your [tag]social network[/tag] anywhere you go, beyond the boundaries of your PC, Laptop, Mobile and even your network host. So now, you are at the center of your network, that comprises of friends in Orkut or Facebook, Professional connections in Linked In, your Twitter followers and your blog readers etc.. You choose the platform that you want to use according to your convinience and your network make the decisions based on their preferences. Irrespective of platform that you choose to host your identity on, your network follows you…

Are we Ready Yet?

The building blocks are all there already. You have social networking sites. You have [tag]Mobile Social networks[/tag] that are catching up in a big way. You have emerging standards like [tag]Open Social[/tag] and [tag]Google Friend Connect[/tag] that will glue your identity together. Social Network Portability takes care of making your profile information available on all affiliated sites. OAuth and OpenID become your Social Security Identification (like SSN in real world). Just imagine, this opens a whole new business model for [tag]network aggregators[/tag]. We will see equivalents of [tag]Technorati[/tag] and [tag]Digg[/tag] to swarm the world of social networking. A recent report from Computer world confirms that the social networking community will hit 975 million mark by 2012. This opens up a huge market for “Social Networker” centric busines models.

It’s Feasibility

How feasible is this concept in today’s scenario? Especially with the recent stand off between Google and [tag]Facebook[/tag]. I dont this as a great threat. Infact, any new promising technology or concept always has multiple fathers claiming its origin. Many standards mushroom around it and its finally the user community and market forces, which decide the winner. Even if there are multiple standards that emerge around this concept, It would be rather easy to integrate using 3-4 parallel standards than 100s non standard compliant network. If you have worries about internet penetration, mobile usage and other demographics, be rest assured all trends are on their way up.

Conclusion

As I write this post, there are so many permutations and combinations that I can think of. Blog best practices that I made for my blog restrict me to make it any longer. I will leave that for later day and will leave you with this thought. And if you still think this concept is far away. Look at this post from [tag]Mashable[/tag].