Tropophilia discusses the various data portability ‘connections’ Facebook, MySpace and Google introduced to the social networking arena. Facebook Connect, which was announced last week, offers websites external to Facebook the “option of logging in using Facebook credentials.” “MySpace also launched their data portability initiative with partnerships such as eBay and Twitter.” Google’s Friend Connect –announced yesterday—not only connects people to their friends’ sites, but allows them to link to everyone, everywhere. Tropophilia poses the questions, “Which strategy will be more popular and will succeed? Can they coexist?” We’ll soon find out.

TwitterFone is buzzing on Socialized. Socialized calls the service an exceptional accomplishment. “The ability to go directly from the spoken word to a text update on a social network has long been a missing link for users.” TwitterFone allows mobile users to update their ‘tweets’ quickly and easily versus the limited typing of texts on mobile phones.

The Toad Stool’s Alan Wolk announces his dismay for Jetting’s website functionality, JetBlue’s recently launched campaign. Alan stated, “this is the one point of interaction many (if not most) consumers will have with them, the website should really be something special.” He also says that the lesson “is that brands need to think about how and where consumers find them and to make sure that experience matches the experience promised in the advertising.”

Living in a digital world provides information from Ofcom’s first and free dedicated report on social networking in the UK. Some of the interesting findings from Ofcom, an independent regulator, are that “the UK apparently has a higher level of social networking site take-up than the US, Japan, France, Germany and Italy. The only country where social networking is more popular is Canada” and about one fourth of those visiting “social networking sites are aged over 50.”

Chris Kieff of 1 Good Reason lists his top 10 social media guides ‘covering the state of the art for business’. Among the top 10 are Blogging 101 by Susan Getgood, A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon by Dosh Dosh, How Do I Get Placement On Blogs by Jason Falls, and All Top Social Media.