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"MessageDance  is an upcoming service that doesn't have much to do with dancing, but has everything to do with messaging.  The set up of the MessageDance is pretty confusing\u2014it looks and feels much like a social network, but figuring out the larger importance of MessageDance is a tricky feat.  \nThat being said, I'll take a few steps back to give you an overview of what MessageDance is really about.  The service boils down to a portable message wall.  Call it what you want: guest book, profile comments... whatever.  Just imagine your Facebook Wall being converted into a widget, and placed anywhere you want.  \nYour MessageDance comments aren't limited to just Facebook, however.  They're not even limited to social networks.  MessageDance will give you an email address that your friends can use to send you a message directly from their email client, and the message will appear on your widget.  \nNow looking back at the MessageDance community: here you can keep track of all your messages.  They're public, and other MessageDance users can see them, so make sure you have nice friends.  What's interesting is that all comments (messages) on the site are treated as individual pieces of media, meaning you can respond to them on an individual level, and leave comments.  This isn't possible directly from the widgets (no threaded comments here), but it is possible on MessageDance's main site.  \nI've seen a few applications come about that are looking to make bank on the fact that we all love to add out two cents.  CoComment  is a tool that helps you keep track of your comments across various blogs and networks, so that you can see if other people care about your two cents (and for other tracking purposes as well, but we all know the real deal).  But MessageDance I'm a little confused about, because of the extremely transparent nature of this widget, and the inability to use it, in most cases, as a correspondence tool or a specialized widget offering that's associated with a particular event, piece of media, etc.  \nI can see its usefulness for business purposes, if one would like to collect comments pertaining to specific discussions.  I'd find that it would be most practical for this assigned purpose of collecting comment data in this manner, which means it would be slightly less useful on a social network unless it's used for the same purpose as the existing \"comments/wall/guestbook\" feature that's already existing in your account.  Now, the fact that those outside your network can leave comments (if you invite then to) means that there's some level of importation for the MessageDance widget, but I'm not sure that it would matter a great amount.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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