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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When is a social network NOT a social network? When it’s part of Ning’s 200,000 social networks! Give me a break, Gina and Marc! STOP bragging about how many people have clicked and created a network. How come you have NEVER posted anything on: how many networks have five or more people in them? How ’bout 50 people in them? Or 500 people? Bragging about 200,000 networks with one person in them is absurd. And I don’t even care if they’re porno networks or not! But they’re NOT networks if there are less than what? Five? 10? 25 in them? You’re obviously pimping yourself up for a sale. Give us all a break–please!

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