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19 October 2007
Web 2.0 Summit - Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon
Posted by Paul Miller at October 19, 2007 10:31 PM
LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon from SixApart are up next, talking about control of the social graph.
Lots of social networks exist, some of which (like dopplr) are tightly focussed upon a single use case. But they all need access to the social graph in order to be of value. Traditionally, they have had to ask the user to repopulate their social graph each time they join a new site, and this is 'frustrating'.
Analogy of the IM wars... Adium, Trillium etc not real solutions... they're a (useful) kludge. Arrival of more open solutions like Jabber.
Silos of identity, too - to which OpenID is a partial solution.
“Either social networks will keep their walls up to force individuals to choose, or the will open up in the hope that they'll get the customer even if their competitor does too” (quoting O'Reilly Radar)
“Open Data is increasingly important as services move online” (quoting Tim O'Reilly). Too right. Hence our interest...
The social graph (who my friends are) should be mine, and not controlled by Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace, etc.
“I want to get to the point that a social networking site cannot come about without supporting a data interchange format... and I think there's hope”
Need to put the user in control, and offer FOAF, RSS, Atom etc to export.
...but privacy matters.
OAuth possibly an emerging standard; your “valet key for the web”
TypePad and MovableType to add XFN support.
Real-time stream of relationship changes - updates.elsewhere.im/ - LiveJourna;, Magnoloa, Plaxo, hi5, smugmug, VOX, etc.
“Let's all open the social graph together”
Update: more on Radar
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