Or DLAs, as Marc Canter calls them.

I got an email from Marc on Tuesday giving me some details on Tribe.net's new 'container beta'.

In Marc's words: "...So the time has come when Tribe.net has finally gotten its next generation act together. Tomorrow they're putting out a beta release of their new profile page, which now acts like a DLA because you can plug in any sort of external module. They're starting off with:
 
-          Amazon Wish Lists
-          De.licio.us accounts
-          External Blog feeds
-          In fact ANY RSS feed
-          But they'll be more later
-          And they still have their Tribecast blog module – which is being worked on – now…"

I've been talking about various people and friend aggregators here on The Social Software Weblog. Will Tribe.net be keeping pace wit MSN and Yahoo! in this slow but sure move in this DLA direction? How will other SNS plays like Multiply measure up?