The only true way to connect across all these is to have standards that interface across social networks: the one you run inside your company, the ones you use on the Web, the walled garden ones you use for specific activities, etc.

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It will require a departure from the walled-garden mentality in which the operation of a static Web site or a network of disparate branded blogs has been the status quo.

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Garden.com, which sells everything for the garden and publishes a print magazine that shares content with the Web site, is down 74% from its high in September.

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Ironically, in pushing for a greater adoption of web-based platforms like Firefox, Mozilla is pushing the idea of its own walled garden into extinction much in the same way that Netscape and AOL became less important with the spreading of an open internet and rise of individual online properties.

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