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We've heard about Playstation Vita online opportunities long before we even knew his name, but only now solidifying official details. We knew that it would have connected to the network staging area for each game and an instrument of social proximity (LiveArea and respectively), and although some of the features are there, they have been tweaked a little.
"Near" is "gifting" system, rather than a tool of social discovery; It is intended to leave gifts in certain places accessible to certain people or for all users, and consisting of the items in the game, and so on.
"livearea" is a multi-purpose system upgrade, which will show things like notifications from friends, new DLC and update for the game, and (I'm guessing) shares as PSN games sales and what have you. There is in fact the actual part, entitled Live, which I think Microsoft may actually raise with in this case, the Playstation Live and Xbox Live can actually create confusion.
"Party" is a cross-game voice chat system, available throughout the system. You can override it to command games (divided into red and blue voice channels in the game, for example), but otherwise it's almost always there. This is also your friends list, and you can create a game-related groups for easy start with your team or buddies. I hope they add an exception for this so don't eat up your 3 G bandwidth allowance.
Sounds pretty solid to me, although I think they're kind of Gutted. There is much to be done on the basis of close games, more than they really can run with possible. I would expect more updates to these capabilities, although, of course, developers will find interesting ways to use them, so we will continue to keep an eye on Vita.
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