If Social Networking Sites *Really* Wanted to Interoperate: this tongue-in-cheek piece points out existing and well supported standards (SMTP and IMAP) that could be used to improve interoperability in current social network systems.
TidBITS Networking: ICANN Tests Non-Roman Characters in Domain Names: the official tests for Internationalized Domain Names have run and now the results are starting to filter in. A more complete IDN status report is available from ICANN.
Bacn: is defined as “email you want, but not right now.” Notification messages that you might want to be aware of, but that you don’t want filling up your email or SMS inbox is a common problem. There is more on bacn at Wikipedia. There should be an even lower grade of messages that would classify social network sites that inexplicably seem to think I care that someone in my network added a widget enough to want to read and email about it.
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