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Stephen Downes

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Addressing the online dating community, Michael Jones observes that social networks are increasingly taking on a matchmaking function and suggests that, in order to compete, dating services need to incorporate blogs and social networking tools. This item comes up in the course of a discussion about the introduction in Friendster of Typepad blogs. Here's an example. The Friendster blogs, being tied to community identity, include in their RSS a dc:creator tag identifying the author. Now the cat is out of the bag; we should expect rapid progress in the development of the semantic social network. But now come the really hard questions, like: what are the ethics of going on a virtual date with someone you're quoting in your English essay?

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